shopkeeping

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the business or occupation of owning, managing, or working in a retail shop

   Years of shopkeeping taught her how seasonal demand affected inventory.

A compound of shop + keeping, modeled on shopkeeper. It names the occupation and practical activity of maintaining a retail shop rather than the act of shopping as a customer.

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