sales floor

noun

The part of a business devoted to retail activities, such as a showroom or selling area of a shop or department store, usually manned by sales staff and having free public access with goods on display.

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Meanings

nounsales floor (plural sales floors)

plural sales floors

  1. businessThe part of a business devoted to retail activities, such as a showroom or selling area of a shop or department store, usually manned by sales staff and having free public access with goods on display.

    Tokyo's popular Isetan department store devotes an entire sales floor to men's cosmetics.

    2005 October 31, Ling Woo Liu, “Mirror, Mirror...”, in Time, retrieved 23 Jun 2015
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    Customers carry clipboards to record stock numbers as they wander about the 3,000-square-foot sales floor, testing items that are displayed, one each, on wooden shelves and tables.

    1981 April 4, “Thriving on do-it yourselfers”, in New York Times, retrieved 23 Jun 2015

    Synonyms: shop floor, floor

Synonyms & antonyms

nounThe part of a business devoted to retail activities, such as a showroom or selling area of a shop or department store, usually manned by sales staff and having free public access with goods on display.

Similar
shop floorfloor
Also see
selling floorshop floor
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Chicago

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