chapmen
Itinerant goods sellers
Chapmen is the plural of chapman, an archaic word for a traveling merchant or peddler.
The word survives mainly in the surname Chapman and in cheap, which originally meant "trade" or "bargain"—a chapman was someone you bargained with.
Medieval chapmen carried goods from town to town.
Mobile small-scale merchants
- hawkersStreet sellers who shout
- tinkersMeddles amateurishly with mechanisms
- huckstersAggressive or unscrupulous sellers
- packmenWandering merchandise sellers
door-to-door · wayfarers · roadside · wandering · countryside · villages · hamlets · routes
Things for sale
- merchandiseCommercial products offered
- trinketsMinor decorative objects
- notionsFleeting mental impressions
- haberdasheryMen's clothing accessories retail
sundries · ribbons · needles · buttons · thread · combs · mirrors · almanacs
Negotiating a lower price
- negotiationDiscussion seeking mutual accord
- deal-makingNegotiating agreements between parties
- barterDirect goods-for-goods exchange
- exchangeMutual giving and receiving
terms · offer · counteroffer · dickering · chaffering · commission · markup · wholesale
Craftsmen's mutual aid societies
- fairsPublic exhibitions and carnivals
- market-townsLicensed trading settlements
- coinageInvented term or currency
- ledgersFormal accounting records
apprentices · journeymen · charters · tolls · livery · staples · boroughs · freemen
peddlers
Mobile small-scale merchants
- hawkersStreet sellers who shout
- tinkersMeddles amateurishly with mechanisms
- huckstersAggressive or unscrupulous sellers
packmen · door-to-door · wayfarers · roadside · wandering · countryside · villages · hamlets · routes · circuits
goods
Things for sale
- merchandiseCommercial products offered
- trinketsMinor decorative objects
- notionsFleeting mental impressions
haberdashery · sundries · ribbons · needles · buttons · thread · combs · mirrors · almanacs · broadsheets
haggling
Negotiating a lower price
- negotiationDiscussion seeking mutual accord
- deal-makingNegotiating agreements between parties
- barterDirect goods-for-goods exchange
exchange · terms · offer · counteroffer · dickering · chaffering · commission · markup · wholesale · retail
guilds
Craftsmen's mutual aid societies
- fairsPublic exhibitions and carnivals
- market-townsLicensed trading settlements
- coinageInvented term or currency
ledgers · apprentices · journeymen · charters · tolls · livery · staples · boroughs · freemen · burghers
chapmenshopkeepers
Retail establishment proprietors
storekeepers · merchants · stallholders · shop owners · proprietors
chapmenbuyers
Those who obtain goods
purchasers · customers · consumers · patrons · clientele