SHOPPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shopper mean? 

• SHOPPER (noun)
  The noun SHOPPER has 2 senses:

1. someone who visits stores in search of articles to buy

2. a commercial agent who shops at the competitor's store in order to compare their prices and merchandise with those of the store that employs her

  Familiarity information: SHOPPER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHOPPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who visits stores in search of articles to buy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("shopper" is a kind of...):

client; customer (someone who pays for goods or services)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shopper"):

bargain hunter (a shopper who hunts for bargains)

shopaholic (a compulsive shopper)

Derivation:

shop (do one's shopping)

shop (shop around; not necessarily buying)

shop (do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A commercial agent who shops at the competitor's store in order to compare their prices and merchandise with those of the store that employs her

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("shopper" is a kind of...):

agent (a representative who acts on behalf of other persons or organizations)

Derivation:

shop (do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of)

 Context examples 

Scarcely had they met when the Telegraph Avenue car came along and stopped to take on a crowd of afternoon shoppers.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The researchers found that shoppers made 76% fewer annual purchases of less healthy common checkout foods from supermarkets with checkout food policies compared to those without.

(Removing sweets and crisps from supermarket checkouts linked to dramatic fall in unhealthy snack purchases, University of Cambridge)

Many of these purchases may have been impulse buys, so if the shopper doesn’t pick up a chocolate bar at the till, it may be one less chocolate bar that they consume.

(Removing sweets and crisps from supermarket checkouts linked to dramatic fall in unhealthy snack purchases, University of Cambridge)

Next, they looked at data from 7,500 shoppers who recorded food bought and eaten ‘on-the-go’ during 2016-17 from supermarkets with and without checkout food policies.

(Removing sweets and crisps from supermarket checkouts linked to dramatic fall in unhealthy snack purchases, University of Cambridge)

After a year, shoppers were still purchasing over 15% fewer of the items compared to when no policy was in place.

(Removing sweets and crisps from supermarket checkouts linked to dramatic fall in unhealthy snack purchases, University of Cambridge)

To examine the effect that the introduction of checkout food policies in major supermarket chains has had on shoppers’ purchasing habits, the researchers analysed data from the Kantar Worldpanel’s Consumer panel for food, beverages and household products.

(Removing sweets and crisps from supermarket checkouts linked to dramatic fall in unhealthy snack purchases, University of Cambridge)

Our findings suggest that by removing sweets and crisps from the checkout, supermarkets can have a positive influence on the types of purchases their shoppers make, says Dr Katrine Ejlerskov, the study’s first author.

(Removing sweets and crisps from supermarket checkouts linked to dramatic fall in unhealthy snack purchases, University of Cambridge)