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mass merchant

 
 
noun [C] (also mass merchandiser)

Definition

COMMERCE a store that sells large quantities of different products to a large number of people: The retailer has evolved from an online direct merchant of books into a true mass merchant.
(Definition of mass merchant noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
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