shopkeepers in English

noun
1
the owner and manager of a shop.
When we walk into a shop we get sneered at by the shopkeeper and we are not left to walk about the shop freely.
synonyms:storekeepershop ownervendorretailerdealersellermerchanttraderwholesaler

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1. The new parking restrictions have angered shopkeepers.

2. Shopkeepers buy wholesale and sell retail.

3. Shopkeepers had to barricade themselves in.

4. 10 These two shopkeepers are in prison for tax evasion.

5. Shopkeepers expertly rolled spices up in bay leaves.

6. How is it possible to bargain with shopkeepers who bluff and bluster?

7. The shopkeepers showed them their wares with great enthusiasm .

8. Shopkeepers are boarding up their windows in case rioting breaks out.

9. Shopkeepers and retailers are becoming more and more profit margin oriented.

10. The police have warned shopkeepers to look out for forged notes.

11. Provincial shopkeepers were active in almost every English market town.

12. 13 He's been charged with extorting protection money from the shopkeepers.

13. 10 Shopkeepers buy them in bulk and resell them for £150 each.

14. Shopkeepers are hoping to cash in on the biggest shopping season worldwide.

15. 1 In mid-afternoon, shopkeepers began to roll down their shutters.

16. Shopkeepers are not supposed to sell knives and other sharp implements to children.

17. Some shopkeepers closed early to prevent the wholesale destruction of their property by the hooligans.

18. The second group covers private entrepreneurs, their employees and archetypal small shopkeepers.

19. 6 The smaller shopkeepers ganged together to beat off competition from the supermarkets.

20. The small shopkeepers realized that the hypermarket will take away some of their trade.

21. In Blackpool, sandcastles were replaced by sandbags - handed out to hoteliers and shopkeepers on the flooded prom.

22. Spare a thought for the nation's shopkeepers-consumer sales slid again in May.

23. 2 Small shopkeepers carried on a long agitation against the big department stores.

24. Bespoke shopkeepers, celebrated chefs, jewellers, craftsmen and artists arrived to cater for exclusive tastes.

25. 22 The gangsters used threats of violence to force the shopkeepers to pay up.

26. Very few shopkeepers have been allowed to cross the checkpoints in search of foodstuffs.

27. My bank gives the following advice to shopkeepers: ‘Keep a mint copy of each bill.

28. 8 Bespoke shopkeepers, celebrated chefs, jewellers, craftsmen and artists arrived to cater for exclusive tastes.

29. 3 Permission for the development was granted in the teeth of opposition from local shopkeepers.

30. 27 All the shopkeepers there have chipped in and hired a promo agency to drum up Christmas trade.

31. 28 In Blackpool, sandcastles were replaced by sandbags - handed out to hoteliers and shopkeepers on the flooded prom.

32. For which we had to make restitution... to shopkeepers whose storefronts were destroyed by Lynch's actions.

33. Another dilemma for some shopkeepers is how to cope with the constantly escalating cost of rent.

34. One side kidnaps women over bungled drug deals, rapes other women, attacks shopkeepers and, occasionally, shoots the police.

35. Instead, early shopkeepers typically had a front door with two wider openings on either side, each covered with shutters.

36. Protesters, including sympathetic farmers and shopkeepers, placed a symbolic coffin in front of Quimper's prefecture, or local government office.

37. She said she believed in letting her children learn from life experiences such a interacting with local shopkeepers.

38. Traders and shopkeepers there were not capitalists, although they accepted that definition of themselves in their defence of free enterprise.

39. 24 Shopkeepers keep their riot-cladding drawn, opening narrow doors for customers, and the cash-registers and shotguns nestle behind bullet-proof glass.

40. 21 Some merchants and shopkeepers in Ajdabiya, immigrants from other regions, had no affiliation with either the Magharba or the Zuwaya.

41. Cheapness Politically conservative, they stood up for small shopkeepers and artisans, distrusted advertising and preferred 'quality' to Cheapness and darning to new clothes

42. 21 To find myself in the company of so many eminent, discerning and open-minded independent shopkeepers, affords me pleasure beyond expression.

43. F Amously, Napoleon is reputed to have issued it as an insult, but Britain was always proud to be “a nation of shopkeepers

44. From Victorian times it became common for shopkeepers and householders to save old bills, invoices and receipts on a wire hook, known as a Bill hook

45. ‘This follows years of complaints from small shopkeepers and liberal commentators who Bemoan supermarket's retail dominance.’ ‘There has been a lot of complaining about it, …

46. S Apter & Co serviced the entire Northern Cape with Commercial Travellers calling on customers of every description, town and country shopkeepers, hoteliers and farmers

47. He returned the compliment with a quick stop at an indoor market where he delighted shopkeepers by picking up pastries and souvenirs for his daughters .

48. Their ranks would include activists , artists , computer gamers , couriers , funders , intellectuals , journalists , lawyers , lobbyists , organizers , researchers , shopkeepers , and teachers . In short , Mr . Schünemann ' s initiative could lead ultimately to the electronic tagging of all Islamists .

49. According to shopkeepers and roadside women vendors, Bicolour accessories specially Bengals demand high ahead of Independence Day, with people of all ages especially the youth thronging roadside stalls that have sprung up all over the country

50. Pune: Two cops suspended for inaction, dereliction of duty as criminals Brandished weapons, terrorised people The miscreants allegedly danced brandishing swords and sickles, terrorised local residents, forced shopkeepers to close their establishments, and even robbed a person, police said