a person employed by a departmental store to supervise sales personnel, assist customers, etc
US equivalent: floorwalker
shopwalker in American English
(ˈʃɑpˌwɔkər)
noun
British
floorwalker
shopwalker in American English
(ˈʃɑpˌwɔkər)
noun
Brit
a floorwalker
Word origin
[1860–65; shop + walker]This word is first recorded in the period 1860–65. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Paleolithic, metric system, monism, mutualism, trade name