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Old 27-Feb-2003, 22:00
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Please tell me what looks wrong with the following sentence?

We specialize in shopper's transportation needs.

This sentence needs to refer to all shoppers of a store.
It also needs to point out that we are talking about each of the shopper's individual need.
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Old 28-Feb-2003, 04:17
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This is how I would say what you want to say.


We specialize in the individual transportation needs of all our shoppers.
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Please tell me what looks wrong with the following sentence?

We specialize in shopper's transportation needs.

This sentence needs to refer to all shoppers of a store.
It also needs to point out that we are talking about each of the shopper's individual need.
When one is talking about more thyan one shopper, the possessive form is shoppers'.
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