Consumer vs Shopper - What's the difference?
consumer | shopper |
One who, or that which, consumes.
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
, title=Internal Combustion
, chapter=2 (economics) someone who trades money for goods as an individual.
(biology) an organism that uses other organisms for food in order to gain energy.
A person who shops.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author=
, volume=189, issue=7, page=32, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= A free local newspaper containing advertisements for local shops etc; sometimes includes discount coupons.
A kind of bicycle suited to riding short distances.
* 2010 ,
As nouns the difference between consumer and shopper
is that consumer is one who, or that which, consumes while shopper is a person who shops.consumer
English
(wikipedia consumer)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.}}
- This new system favours the consumer over the producer.
Derived terms
* anticonsumer * consumerist * consumerismAntonyms
* (economics) and (biology): producerSee also
biology * carnivore * decomposer * detritivore * first-order consumer * herbivore * omnivore * producer * scavenger * second-order consumer English agent nouns ----shopper
English
Noun
(en noun)Nick Miroff
Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […], passage=The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile.}}
Malc Cowle], [http://www.lulu.com/shop/product-12671066.html The Adventures of a Bicycle Frame Builder
- Every conceivable type of cycle's represented; modern stripped down carbon fibre race bikes, state of the art touring machines and humble shoppers , tandems, tandem trikes, racing trikes and shopping trikes, mountain and BMX bikes.