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His parents, Frederick and Phyllis, were shopkeepers.
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Chris Koseluk, HollywoodReporter, 9 June 2025
When a shopkeeper sent a young employee to pick up a pallet for sale on the internet, the employee was robbed at gunpoint of six thousand dollars.
—Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
On Chicago’s South Side and in Harlem’s Lenox Avenue, Black tenants rented apartments from Jewish landlords and bought clothes on credit from Jewish shopkeepers.
—Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 24 May 2025
His father was a mostly unsuccessful lawyer, a downbeat man who also worked as a shopkeeper, postmaster and judge.
—Dwight Garner, New York Times, 13 May 2025
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Chris Koseluk, HollywoodReporter, 9 June 2025
When a shopkeeper sent a young employee to pick up a pallet for sale on the internet, the employee was robbed at gunpoint of six thousand dollars.
—Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
On Chicago’s South Side and in Harlem’s Lenox Avenue, Black tenants rented apartments from Jewish landlords and bought clothes on credit from Jewish shopkeepers.
—Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 24 May 2025
His father was a mostly unsuccessful lawyer, a downbeat man who also worked as a shopkeeper, postmaster and judge.
—Dwight Garner, New York Times, 13 May 2025
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“Shopkeeper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shopkeeper. Accessed 23 Jun. 2025.
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shopkeeper
noun
shop·keep·er
ˈshäp-ˌkē-pər 
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