floorwalker

American  

[flawr-waw-ker, flohr-] / ˈflɔrˌwɔ kər, ˈfloʊr- /

noun

1. a person employed in a store to direct customers and supervise salespeople.

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floorwalker British  

/ ˈflɔːˌwɔːkə /

noun

1. the US name for shopwalker

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Etymology

Origin of floorwalker

An Americanism dating back to 1875–80; floor + walker

Example Sentences

One former floorwalker confides that employees snap up the best pieces before customers can even see them.

From Slate • Oct. 17, 2013

Hoving escorts McPhee to his museum's Flemish collection with the zest of a "floorwalker on his way to the Hickey-Freeman suits" in a men's store.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lindsay is as nattily dressed as a floorwalker, Grouse as rumpled as an insomniac's bed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Another ludicrously casts him as a floorwalker at Bloomingdale's.

From Time Magazine Archive

That floorwalker could have simply said that monkeys bite or that popcorn is not their natural diet or something like that—but instead he had to think he was a schoolteacher.

From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel