Customer
Customer noun - A person who buys a product or uses a service from a business.
Nearby Words: custom, customable
Salesman
Salesman noun - A person employed to sell goods or services especially in a store.
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Synonyms for Salesman
Nearby Word: salesmanship
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Lying somewhere between Overly Long Gag and Leave the Camera Running: a sketch from an old Finnish sketch show (starring the Finnish actor/comedian legend Pertti "Spede" Pasanen) features a customer and a salesman in a hardware store.
Source: Overly Long Gag -
Used in a UK TV advert for Direct Line Insurance with Chris Addison playing an insurance salesman who inadvertently confuses a potential customer by saying his grandmother is "no longer with us".
Source: No Longer with Us -
Man Child: Hilariously, Q was told to be this as an Ikea salesman, wearing pajamas over his uniform, lugging around an oversized stuffed monkey, and asking a customer to read him a bedtime story.
Source: Series / Impractical Jokers
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