(n.) One who retails anything; as, a retailer of merchandise; a retailer of gossip.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some retailers said April's downpours led to pent-up demand which was unleashed at the first sign of summer, with shoppers rushing to update their summer wardrobes.
(2) VAT increases don't just hit the poor more than the rich, they also hit small firms, threaten retail jobs and, by boosting inflation, could also lead to higher interest rates."
(3) To settle the case, Apple and the four publishers offered a range of commitments to the commission that will include the termination of current agency agreements, and, for two years, giving ebook retailers the freedom to set their own prices for ebooks.
(4) Large price cuts seem to have taken a toll on retailer profitability, while not necessarily increasing sales substantially,” Barclaycard concluded.
(5) The retail and wholesale divisions powered the improved profits.
(6) Sainsbury’s revealed on Tuesday that it had made an approach to buy Home Retail , which also owns DIY chain Homebase, and sources expect the company to return with another bid.
(7) A survey sent randomly to 30 retail pharmacies got 24 replies.
(8) Time suggests that the FBI inquiry has been extended from a relatively narrow look at alleged malpractices by News Corp in America into a more general inquiry into whether the company used possibly illegal strongarm tactics to browbeat rival firms, following allegations of computer hacking made by retail advertising company Floorgraphics.
(9) One of those was Fon, an independent retailer in Sheffield run by Steve Beckett and Rob Mitchell.
(10) Thanks to the groundbreaking technology and heavy investment of a new breed of entertainment retailers offering access services, we are witnessing a revolution in the entertainment industry, benefitting consumers, creators and content owners alike.” ERA acts as a forum for the physical and digital retail sectors of music, and represents over 90% of the of the UK’s entertainment retail market.
(11) The poor weather is coming at the worst possible time for retailers.
(12) Faulkner said: "Tobacco packaging is the last way in which the tobacco industry can advertise and market its lethal products; we have now stopped all conventional advertising and the retail display ban will come into in full effect in 2015.
(13) The survey also found that department stores – which include general retailers such as Marks & Spencer as well as traditional outlets such as John Lewis – had enjoyed their strongest surge in sales for 30 years.
(14) For ambulance drivers, who earn significantly below the average UK wage, the figure is more than £1,800, the analysis found using the retail prices index (RPI) measure of inflation, which hit 2.5% in December .
(15) A quarter of all cocaine consumed in Western Europe is trafficked through West Africa, according to UNOCD, for a local wholesale value of $1.8bn and a retail value of 10 times that in Europe.
(16) David Jeary, a retail analyst at Canaccord Genuity, said the terms of Sainsbury’s offer looked attractive for Home Retail shareholders given the business’s recent performance.
(17) Tesco, the UK’s biggest petrol retailer with 499 outlets and more than 16% market share, cut petrol and diesel by 1p a litre at all of its petrol stations from lunchtime on Thursday.
(18) Retail advertising fell 8% year on year and classified advertising fell 19% for the period.
(19) He believed retail deposits, where cash is not being held for investments, were currently "broadly stable".
(20) Richard Dodd at the British Retail Consortium welcomed the cut, which will last for 13 months and cost £12.5bn in a full year, but he warned that getting the price cuts in place by next Monday would be "a difficult task".
Salesperson
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Today's proponents of unorthodox therapy are well-educated, media-conscious, and effective salespersons.
(2) There was disappointment” among her Negroland relatives, whom Jefferson describes as “endlessly tolerant of the act” of passing for white, that Lucius “had only become a salesperson”.
(3) But the salesperson said that since the faxes started going out on Thursday he personally had taken 15 (individual) orders, and that interest was running higher than for the recently released range of BlackBerry phones (which you would expect would do better than iPhones, being usually thought of as a business phone).
(4) The author proposes some ideas salespersons resort to when customer's persuasion is at stake, since he understands these ideas are likely to maximize psychiatrists' persuasive ability.
(5) • A Barclays salesperson described “the deluge of Fremont garbage being put out there”, the DoJ said.
(6) "My salesperson wanted to give her the handbag in her hand.
(7) The salesperson who found my purse opened it on her own and said that there was no phone contact visible.
(8) It was, all in all, a decent pitch from a likeable salesperson.
(9) There are certain expectations that salespersons need to be aware of to have continued business, quality time, and an invitation to return to the surgery department.
(10) "People are starting to treat air purifiers as a necessary appliance like a washing machine or computer," said Bi Xiuyan, a 56-year-old product salesperson for Amway.
(11) He was a great salesperson and a task master," La Maina said.
(12) Dispositionally optimistic salespersons were observed to rely more on problem-focused coping strategies, while pessimists engaged in emotion-focused coping.
(13) Why on earth would you not want a snappy salesperson wandering up and asking for your email address, your address and postcode, and your date of birth, so that this valuable private data can be sold on to myriad companies?
(14) This verdict has revealed a deliberate tactic by SSE, not the behaviour of a rogue salesperson.
(15) These results allow this study to emphasize the followings in order to raise the awareness of the laboratory workers: (i) alteration of disk efficacy during transportation and storage; (ii) major considerations in choosing different brands' antimicrobial disks, and (iii) the important roles played by salespersons and pharmaceutical companies in achieving sound results.
(16) She allegedly filled in some details on one of the forms but told a salesperson she could not read one of the forms, so the representative asked her questions and wrote down answers for her, then she signed it.
(17) Sara, a 29-year-old cosmetics salesperson, says: "I'm not going to vote at all.
(18) Once a Foxtons salesperson gets their talons in, it is hard to shake them off.
(19) The employee said a company salesperson had promoted the drug to an NHS consultant in an email.