Vendor vs. Shop — What's the Difference?

In a supply chain, a vendor, or a seller, is an enterprise that contributes goods or services. Generally, a supply chain vendor manufactures inventory/stock items and sells them to the next link in the chain.

Also shoppe A small retail store or a specialty department in a large store.

A person or company offering something for sale, especially a trader in the street

An atelier; a studio.

One that sells or vends something

A place for manufacturing or repairing goods or machinery.

One that provides products or services to a business for a fee.

A commercial or industrial establishment

A vending machine.

A business establishment; an office or a center of activity.

A person or a company that vends or sells.

A home workshop.

A vending machine.

A schoolroom fitted with machinery and tools for instruction in industrial arts.

To bundle third-party dependencies with the source code for one's own program.

The industrial arts as a technical science or course of study.

As the software vendor, to bundle one's own, possibly modified version of dependencies with a standard program.

To visit stores in search of merchandise or bargains.

A vender; a seller; the correlative of vendee.

To look for something with the intention of acquiring it.

Someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money

To visit or buy from (a particular store).

An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally only a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.

A place where things are manufactured or crafted; a workshop.

A large garage where vehicle mechanics work.

Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk, closed shop and shop floor.

Discussion of business or professional affairs.

A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skill.

An establishment where a barber or beautician works.

An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies.

(intransitive) To visit stores or shops to browse or explore merchandise, especially with the intention of buying such merchandise.

(transitive) To purchase products from (a range or catalogue, etc.).

To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority.

To imprison.

To photoshop; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.

(dated) Used to attract the services of a shop assistant

A building or an apartment in which goods, wares, drugs, etc., are sold by retail.

A building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, a shoe shop; a car shop.

A person's occupation, business, profession, or the like, as a subject of attention, interest, conversation, etc.; - sometimes in deprecation or disapproval; as, to talk shop at a party. Also used attributively, as in shop talk.

A place where any industry is carried on; as, a chemist's shop;

Any place of resort, as one's house, a restaurant, etc.

The group of workers and the activities controlled by an administrator; as, to have five people in one's shop.

To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods.

A mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services;

Small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done

A course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or electricity);

Do one's shopping;

Do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of

Shop around; not necessarily buying;

Give away information about somebody;