A person who owns or manages a store, especially a small general store that sells various everyday goods.
Compound of 'store' (from Old French 'estor' meaning supplies) and 'keeper' (from Old English 'kepere' meaning guardian). A straightforward occupational term.
Before supermarkets, the storekeeper was the most important person in town—they knew everyone's credit history, family secrets, and could extend them food on credit when times got hard!
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