carriage trade
Wealthy regular patrons
Carriage trade refers to wealthy, high-class customers—the kind who once arrived by private carriage rather than on foot or by public transport.
The term now describes upscale clientele generally: The boutique caters to the carriage trade.
A carriage-trade establishment serves affluent patrons and charges accordingly.
- upper crustSocial elite class
- commerceExchange of goods, services
- eliteSuperior select group
- shippingTransporting goods to destinations
- warehousesLarge goods storage buildings
freight · mercantilism · stagecoaches · livery stables · distribution · horse-drawn vehicles · horse and buggy · Gilded Age · Fifth Avenue · high society · old money · social register · luxury goods · top hat · coachbuilding · landaus · Tiffany · coachmakers
carriage tradebargain hunters
mass market · the masses · bargain basement · common people · working class
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