shopgoer

plural shopgoers · alternative shop-goer

1. Someone who goes to a shop to make purchases.

   This was quite a common practice among the shopgoers, for somebody to guard the place while another person was checking what was on sale.

   2008, Lina Zilionyte, Born for Freedom, page 271

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   They had been a high-profile curiosity on Oxford Street, London's shopping center, for months as they moved with vigor among the shopgoers and tourists.

   1985, Caryl Matrisciana, Gods of the new age, page 12

   His warning — and the curious juxtaposition of food with literary genres — suddenly comes alive when we recall how widely the eighteenth-century shopgoer accepted what had been common knowledge among the Aztecs, who first cultivated and brewed the cocoa bean: chocolate acts as a quick, effective aphrodisiac.

   1989, James Engell, Forming the Critical Mind: Dryden to Coleridge, page 151