Customer
Customer noun - A person who buys a product or uses a service from a business.
Nearby Words: custom, customable
Grocer
Grocer noun - A retail merchant who sells foodstuffs (and some household supplies).
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Synonyms for Grocer
Nearby Word: grocery
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- A Korean-American grocer tells her husband something negative about an African-American customer, with the addendum "he can't possibly know what we are talking about." The customer tells her, in fluent Korean, that he served in the Army in Korea in 1952.
Source: Bilingual Backfire -
A classic animated sketch on Sesame Street has a grocer stacking 12 large cans, presumably filled with tomato juice, but the first customer to pass the display pulls a can from the bottom of the stack.
Source: Doomed Supermarket Display -
Once the customer leaves, the grocer calls his wife and asks her to throw away the pickles, saying, That pissing arsehole was here again. He pronounces the Hebrew word for piss, pipi,Hebrew פיפי note Yes, this did make translating Pippis name rather troublesome in Israel.
Source: Arab Beoble Talk
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