A girl who is a specially good shopper should be able to build up a business among her friends.
One of the younger workers is called the shopper and is sent to wholesale and retail establishments to buy furnishings, trimmings, and materials of various kinds.
The expert shopperin these departments is already in demand.
The perturbed shopperturned reluctantly away, hesitated, and then asked: "But the roses?
As she paused to gaze at great bunches of carnations and roses, tied with broad and streaming ribbons, the anxious look that attends the doubtful shopper returned to her face.
She would not be sent back to that clerk, who had jested about the felt slippers in a manner the young shopper felt was quite ill-bred, to ask him to exchange the white shoes for black ones.
White stockings were added to the purchase, on which, also, the shopper saved another two cents, so that she felt almost a millionaire as she stepped out of the shoe department and around to the elevator door, where she was to meet her mother.
The embattled commercial transaction is conducted in this wise: The shopper enters, and prices a given article.
Scornfully the shopper eyed the shelves where were boxes of buttons dating back to periods of red and black glass.
Before counting out change, however, she paused, regarding the shopper musingly.
As a matter of fact it is only to the shopper that the shop closes at the stated hour; some of the hardest work of the day comes after hours.
One fact that a good shopper learns is this--that certain articles may be purchased to greater advantage at one place than another.
Because she was curious to see who might be the other shopper out on that rainy afternoon, Nan entered the wood-carving establishment and came suddenly face to face with Neal Harding.
Its maximum force for the day is on the job and the wise shoppercomes close to this hour.
If an article requested is not found in stock, the shopper immediately buys something else--so as to get the number of the salesclerk.
The shopper reported that the claim was correct, and a check was immediately forwarded to the customer for the difference between the price which she paid for the clock and six per cent.
Straightway they decided that the New York shopper was neither more timid nor more reluctant to use a new idea than was her Boston or her Chicago sister.
Immediate investigation is made, the prices checked up, and, if the casual shopper is right, Macy's prices are at once readjusted to the six per cent.
In all that debris there may be some one tiny article of great value--a ring or a purse, dropped by some hasty or careless shopper or salesgirl.
It then was turned over to the comparison department, from which a shopper was despatched to the store at which the customer claimed to have seen the clock for less money.
Slowly, and with the greatest reluctance, did the normalshopper approach the object he coveted.
Illustration] The shopper was a man of medium height.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shopper" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
