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1803 Cobbett's Ann. Reg. 6 Aug. 214 The merchant wishes to avoid the shopper, the shop-keeper to avoid the mechanic, and all of them to avoid the labourer and the servant.

1862 Guardian 3 Sept. 847/2 It [sc. Paris] is a city not only of pleasure seekers, but of keen and indefatigable shoppers.

1910 A. Thornton Leaves Afghan Scrapbk. 170 This was [Queen] Ulya Hazrat's messenger and chief shopper.

1974 J. Willwerth Jones: Portrait of Mugger xi. 147 We walk to Second Avenue, moving among crowds of shoppers.

2015 Supermarket News (Nexis) 25 Feb. Food retailers could drive themselves crazy.., striving to appease every wish of each shopper entering their stores.

1934 Pop. Sci. Monthly Aug. 112/2 And so, armed with a bundle of similar newspapers and a dummy of his own Shopper, (which was what he called it) he started out.

1958 H. W. Palmer & G. Gilmore in W. C. Clark Journalism Tomorrow iii. 32 The little advertising sheet, often called a shopper... In a few cases, the shopper can be converted into a fine-looking, profitable weekly newspaper.

1976 National Observer (U.S.) 16 Oct. He would junk a lot of the expensive radio and TV commercials, spend the money instead in shoppers and small town weeklies, where you can buy the whole back page for $65.

2006 Philadelphia Mar. 82/3 Walker Lundy may have been roundly criticized for turning the Inquirer from a hard-news Center City daily to a suburban shopper, but everyone always knew he was right.

1962 J. Sherwood Stradella xxvii. 163 Maggie had numerous paper bags in her shopper and perpetually stored them away in back drawers and shelves.

1978 H. R. F. Keating Long Walk to Wimbledon ix. 137 The wheels of Marigold's shopper squeaked.

1997 S.A. Toth Eng. for all Seasons vi. 57 I tell a grocery-store clerk to put my purchases in my shopper rather than in my shopping bag.

2011 Daily Mail 28 Sept. While she may have carried a shopper that read ‘Bet you're well jell of my bag,’ it was her amazing shape that most women will no doubt be jealous of.

1973 Exchange & Mart 15 Nov. 36/1 (advt.) Wanted: Moulton or Raleigh Shopper plus boys sports cycle.

1978 R. Watson & M. Gray Penguin Bk. Bicycle iii. 79 The small-wheel ‘shopper’.

1987 Bicycle Action Aug. 7/2 The saddle..was bright, bright red and..looked like the sort of thing you see on a shopper which may explain why it had such a clumsy appearance on a touring bike.

2006 Blueprint July 55/1 Chained up outside our office amid the usual motley assortment of bikes is a rusty little Windsor shopper c1975.