shopper
- noun
- /ˈʃɑːpər/
- The store hired a professional shopper to assess their competitors' merchandise.
- personal shopper
- mystery shopper
- secret shopper
They told me last time that they had used Secret Shopper as a training tool and they were revising their practices.
- They told me last time that they had used Secret Shopper as a training tool and they were revising their practices.
- They had secret shoppers, secret shoppers, secret shoppers.
Examples
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As far as being poor shoppers, CareerXRoads' secret shopper research shows otherwise.
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After training, the new shopper will visit rival shops to gather pricing information.
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We don't want it looking like that if secret shopper comes, do we?
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Plus, they did that personal shopper thing in the green grocer that we went to.
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Employers even employ "secret shoppers" to assess staff members' performance, including recommendations of menu items.
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Also, TSA needs to use a secret shopper program to evaluate checkpoint procedures.
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There are many options for a home business, including a personal shopper for the elderly or infirm, daycare services, or catering.
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A secret shopper was sent to compare prices at competing stores.
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Shopper is built from shop ('place to buy things') and -er ('person who does something'), like driver, and can also mean someone who shops as a job. That's why a company may call a person a shopper when they pay them to visit other stores and report on prices and products.