Trader, Shopkeeper
Noun and の adjective
しょうにん
商人の血がさわぎます。
As a merchant, I'm thrilled.
わたしの父は、おろし商人です。
My dad is a wholesale trader.
彼、私に自分は商人だって言ってたんだけど、でも実は貧乏なホームレスで、仕事はなんと空き缶収集だったの。
He told me that he was a shopkeeper, but I found out that he was actually a poor homeless man who supported himself by collecting empty cans.
A merchandise person is a merchant. You want to buy something or you just looking?
This is a jukugo word, which usually means on'yomi readings from the kanji. If you know the readings of your kanji you'll know how to read this as well.