storekeepers
Retail business operators
Storekeepers are people who own or manage retail shops.
The term is more common in American English and sounds slightly old-fashioned, evoking small-town merchants rather than corporate retail managers: The local storekeepers knew all their customers by name.
In military contexts, a storekeeper manages supplies and inventory.
Those who conduct commerce
- shopkeepersRetail establishment proprietors
- vendorsThose who sell goods
- proprietorsBusiness establishment holders
- retailersBusinesses selling to public
clerks · cashiers · inventory · merchandise · counters · shelves · customers · sales
Remote commerce station
- mercantileRelating to trade
- apothecaryHistorical medicine preparer
- haberdasheryMen's clothing accessories retail
- dry goodsTextiles and sewing supplies
provisions · chandler · grocer · peddler · ledger · barter · credit · colonial
Those who launch ventures
- ownersThose holding legal title
- family-runManaged by relatives
- mom-and-popSmall owner-operated enterprise
- livelihoodMeans of earning income
local · independent · self-employed · neighborhood · community · bodega · kiosk · tienda
Those entrusted with care
- guardiansThose who protect others
- caretakersThose who maintain property
- stewardsThose who manage affairs
- watchmenGuards of property
security · inventory control · loss prevention · theft · shoplifting · stocktaking · safekeeping · vigilance
merchants
Those who conduct commerce
- shopkeepersRetail establishment proprietors
- vendorsThose who sell goods
- proprietorsBusiness establishment holders
retailers · clerks · cashiers · inventory · merchandise · counters · shelves · customers · sales · registers
trading post
Remote commerce station
- mercantileRelating to trade
- apothecaryHistorical medicine preparer
- haberdasheryMen's clothing accessories retail
dry goods · provisions · chandler · grocer · peddler · ledger · barter · credit · colonial · frontier
entrepreneurs
Those who launch ventures
- ownersThose holding legal title
- family-runManaged by relatives
- mom-and-popSmall owner-operated enterprise
livelihood · local · independent · self-employed · neighborhood · community · bodega · kiosk · tienda · shopfront
custodians
Those entrusted with care
- guardiansThose who protect others
- caretakersThose who maintain property
- stewardsThose who manage affairs
watchmen · security · inventory control · loss prevention · theft · shoplifting · stocktaking · safekeeping · vigilance · opening
- frontier Americapioneers, settlers, homesteaders, homesteading, sodbusters
- frontier peoplepioneers, settlers, frontiersmen, trappers, fur traders
storekeeperswholesalers
Bulk goods merchants
distributors · suppliers · manufacturers · importers · middlemen