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Consumer vs Shopper - What's the difference?

consumer | shopper |

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

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who, or that which, consumes.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
  • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 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.}}
  • (economics) someone who trades money for goods as an individual.
  • This new system favours the consumer over the producer.
  • (biology) an organism that uses other organisms for food in order to gain energy.
  • Derived terms

    * anticonsumer * consumerist * consumerism

    Antonyms

    * (economics) and (biology): producer

    See also

    biology * carnivore * decomposer * detritivore * first-order consumer * herbivore * omnivore * producer * scavenger * second-order consumer English agent nouns ----

    shopper

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who shops.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author= Nick Miroff
  • , volume=189, issue=7, page=32, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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.}}
  • A free local newspaper containing advertisements for local shops etc; sometimes includes discount coupons.
  • A kind of bicycle suited to riding short distances.
  • * 2010 , 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.

    Derived terms

    * mystery shopper

    Anagrams

    * hoppers