🇬🇧 Retailer meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A retailer is a person, shop, or business that sells things directly to customers. Retailers buy products from factories or big warehouses and then sell them one by one to regular people like you and your family. For example, a toy shop, a clothes store, or a supermarket are all retailers, because they sell goods to the public instead of just to other businesses.

A confused retailer watched my cousin try to scan his own face at the checkout to see if it had a price.

The toy retailer knew I was trouble when I asked, "Where do you keep the toys that annoy parents the most?"

I asked the candy retailer for something healthy, so he handed me a carrot-shaped lollipop and winked.

The music retailer said I could try any instrument, but I think they regretted it when I met the drum set.

A retailer sells things directly to people like us, but a wholesaler sells huge amounts to retailers—so if you buy 1 cookie, that’s a retailer; if you buy 1,000 cookies, that’s a really happy wholesaler and a very worried dentist.

The rain drove me into a bright corner shop run by a kind retailer. The retailer smiled, unwrapping a wool hat for a freezing child. Another retailer across the street waved, sharing an umbrella with a customer. An online retailer sent a surprise note. Each retailer sold care, not just goods, and the child hugged the hat, beaming.

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