verbshops, shopping or shopped. (intr often foll by for) to visit a shop or shops in search of (goods) with the intention of buying them. (tr) slang, mainly British to inform on or betray, esp to the police.
A store-within-a-store, also referred to as shop-in-shop, is an agreement in which a retailer rents a part of the retail space to be used by a different company to run another, independent shop.
While some influencers, publishers and brands have access to a feature where users can swipe-up on snaps to buy products directly within the app, this new tool allows select accounts to have a store within Snapchat. Snapchat users can access the shops, which will be powered by Shopify, by going to an account's page.
In Britain, they call it a shop. It seems to be something to do with America being very business centered as in "this is a place for our retailers to store their items to sell", whereas in Britain it would be more "this is a place for our population to shop for things that they need".
Back in the “old” days, goods were transported by ship to local ports. The products were then put in the “store,” on shelves literally to store the products. “The Store” = Storage. Some thousand years later, surprisingly many stores are still just that – products sitting on the shelves as storage.
Dear Larry, Both statements are correct,they are prepositions, indicating where you are at that moment, you in the shop means that you are right inside the shop, you are at shop means that you are nearer to the shop.
Both are grammatical. "At the shop" tells the listener you are in or close enough to the shop to be considered on the premises. "In the shop" is more specific and tells the listener you are within the walls of the shop.
"shop" means any premises that sell retail goods, often of a single kind such as electrical goods, clothes, groceries etc. "Store" tends to mean a larger establishment that is divided into sections and sells several types of goods. ... A small retail store or a specialty department in a large store.
From Middle English shoppe, schoppe, from Old English sċoppa (“shed; booth; stall; shop”), from Proto-Germanic *skupp-, *skup- (“barn, shed”), from Proto-Indo-European *skub-, *skup- (“to bend, bow, curve, vault”).
The use of “grass” as British slang for a police informer dates back to the 1930s, and is apparently a short form of the slang term “grasshopper,” meaning the same thing.
Yeet is a slang word that functions broadly with the meaning “to throw,” but is especially used to emphasize forcefulness and a lack of concern for the thing being thrown. (You don't yeet something if you're worried that it might break.)
In contemporary slang, "gucci" is used to describe something as good, cool, or excellent. It originated from the luxury fashion brand Gucci, but its meaning has expanded beyond its association with the brand. When people use "gucci" to refer to something, they are expressing their approval or satisfaction with it.
m is the standard abbreviation for metre (or meter) in the International System of Units (SI). However, m is also used as an abbreviation for mile. M is used as the unit abbreviation for molarity. With money amounts, m or M can mean one million: For example, $5m is five million dollars.
What does mmk mean? Mmk is a casual, half-humming way to say OK. It is a versatile sound, used to express mild disproval and suspicion … or warm affirmation.
Hypermarkets, like other big-box stores, typically have business models focusing on high-volume, low-margin sales. Typically covering an area of 5,000 to 15,000 square metres (54,000 to 161,000 sq ft), they generally have more than 200,000 different brands of merchandise available at any one time.
A flagship store is a retailer's primary location. While many consider it to be a store's first retail store, retailers often reserve this title for the store that's the most notable.
Yankee is sometimes abbreviated as “Yank.” People from all over the world, including Great Britain, Australia, and South America, use the term to describe Americans. (In Spanish, it's spelled yanqui.) Sometimes, it's a negative description.
Thinking that it was formerly called "Tesco's", as many old British companies are, I looked up its history and learnt that it is a concatenation of the initials of its early tea supplier's name (T. E. Stockwell) and the first two letters of the founder's surname (Cohen), and was never called "Tesco's".
If you ask for a bag of chips in the US, you will be given crispy deep-fried thin sliced potato. In the UK, 'chips' are a thicker version of what people in the US call 'fries'. If you want a bag of what Americans call 'chips' in the UK, just ask for crisps.
