Definition of shopkeeper | Bee Dictionary of English

The state of Virginia is scheduled to execute Robert Yarbrough on Wednesday for the 1997 murder of elderly shopkeeper Cyril Hugh Hamby.
After rushing to a local toy store to score a Furby Baby ("It's the last one we have," the shopkeeper said apologetically, "and it's a little homely.
The world enters the 21st century and the 3rd millennium a wiser place, owing in no small part to the daughter of a small shopkeeper, who proved that nothing is more effective than .

Geppetto’s, Shopkeeper owners assess fire damage
Thu, 13 Jun 2013 09:00:51 GMT By Mai Hoang Yakima Herald-Republic SARA GETTYS/Yakima Herald-Republic Richard Paddock, the owner of Geppetto’s, walks through the remains of his restaurant Wednesday after a fire burned about 20 percent of the building. The Shopkeeper home decor store next door suffered smoke and water damage from the blaze. YAKIMA, Wash. — The owners of two popular local ...
June 18, 2013 - Yakima Herald-Republic
Itasca shopkeeper gets probation for synthetic drugs
An Itasca shopkeeper has been sentenced to two years of probation for carrying synthetic marijuana. Sureshbhai Patel, 54, of Des Plaines, pleaded guilty Friday to felony possession of a controlled substance and was sentenced by DuPage County Judge Daniel Guerin, according to court records.
June 17, 2013 - Daily Herald
Armed Robber Shot, Killed by Jewelry Shopkeeper: DA
A jewelry shopkeeper shot and killed an armed robber inside his Newark store Monday afternoon, authorities said.
June 17, 2013 - NBC New York

Morris Iemma in NEWS.com.au
If I can can give you one example of a shopkeeper in Wallsend shopping centre (near Newcastle), he lost his business, his car and he went home that night to find a tree had collapsed on his house,Mr Iemma said on Sky News. "I mean, that...
Ruth Kelly in BBC News
Ms Kelly added: "It cannot be right in a decent, tolerant society that a shopkeeper or restaurant can refuse to serve a customer because they are gay. It cannot be right for a school to discriminate against a child because of their parents'...
Mohamed Jawad in Huffington Post (blog)
As I explained in my previous article, Jawad said that, "while shopping for raisins, he took the grenade out of his pocket and put it on the sack of raisins, but that when the shopkeeper saw it he 'told me it was a bomb and that I should go and...