Retail Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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smack shopping n. There are two ways to buy on Jellyfish.com. Customers can either search for a specific product and compare the deals offered by participating retailers or they can go “smack” shopping—the term for a group of jellyfish. [English Retail Factitious] [full cite] (Jul. 9, 2007)

sweethearting n. People come into the store and buy a bottle at a certain price and the cashier rings up a different product at a much lower price. They call that sweethearting in the trade, and that goes on. [English Business Retail] [full cite] (Jul. 26, 2005)

sweethearting n. POS/EM Plus helps eliminate employee theft at up to four registers per unit by detecting, documenting and deterring fraud, collusion, sweethearting, coupon misredemption and cash theft. [English Business Retail] [full cite] (Jul. 29, 2005)

sweethearting n. In the classic “sweetheart” situation, corrupt union leaders accept or extort payoffs from employers in exchange for assuring labor peace or winking at contract violations.…[p. 14] The number of employers paying remarkably low sums into the pension fund yields one indication of how many pensions “sweethearting” may threaten. [English Business Retail] [full cite] (Jul. 29, 2005)

sweethearting n. One of the primary methods used by employees is “sweethearting,” theft carried out by collusion between an employee and a customer. It is so named because it most often occurs between a cashier and his family members or friends. With sweethearting, a cashier may fail to charge the customer for some items or may ring up only one item of a multiple purchase. [English Business Crime & Prisons Retail] [full cite] (Jul. 29, 2005)

sweethearting n. Insiders, typically employees of the card issuer or scheme operator, have opportunities to copy, analyze, or steal data and hardware, or to give special privileges or benefits to their friends (sweethearting). [English Business Crime & Prisons Retail] [full cite] (Jul. 29, 2005)

sweethearting n. I’m sure he thinks of himself as an honorable man. And so do they all, big and small:…Bernard Ebbers of WorldCom (suspected of sweethearting himself a $366 million loan). [English Business Crime & Prisons Retail] [full cite] (Jul. 29, 2005)

tamarind season n. For merchants, this is what is known as the “tamarind season”…the slow season which sees a sharp decline in consumer spending. This period calls for much creativity among retailers to woo customers and effectively augment sales. [English Jamaica Retail] [full cite] (Jan. 26, 2007)

teaser parking n. In one corner of the project, typically, there’s a Main Street for smaller mall stores, boutiques and Starbucks. Some have offices or condos upstairs. The street is lined with what’s called “teaser parking” so motorists drive a lap before realizing the empty spaces are in a vast lot out back. [English Automobiles & Transportation Retail Urban Planning & Zoning] [full cite] (Jun. 6, 2007)

Tescopoly n. It was Tesco’s seeming ability to act with impunity that fuelled Simms’ determination to write a book exposing how the inexorable rise of supermarkets is bad for everyone—from poorly paid workers in the field, to small, independent shops fast going out of business, to the over-exploited natural environment. The result is Tescopoly. Although the book, published next week, does not confine its attack exclusively to the supermarket that grew from humble beginnings as a market stall in London’s East End to become a multinational company with a presence in almost every postcode in Britain, Tesco is singled out because of its sheer size and clout. It controls a third of the UK grocery market and has enough land and assets in the UK to further double in size. [English United Kingdom Business Retail] [full cite] (Apr. 19, 2007)

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