When we installed new floors, we bought materials from a store in town, only to discover that we could have bought our supplies online from the same merchant and earned 2, 000 miles.

我们家装新地板的时候，在镇上的一个小店里买了材料，却发现我们如果在网上买这些材料，同样的卖家能得到2000英里的奖励。

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He bargained with the merchant for an hour before he bought the rug.

他与那商人讨价还价了一个小时才买下那块地毯。

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The merchant bought a machine for watermarking his products.

这个商人买了一台机器用于给产品印上水印。

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Merchant banker Augustus Smith bought the lease from the Duchy of Cornwall back in the 1830s, and his descendants, the Dorrien-Smiths, now run the Tresco Estate as a family business.

BBC: The last piece of England

The management buy-out bought MFI from its previous owner, private equity group Merchant Equity Partners (MEP).

BBC: MFI shop