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Retail worker overwhelmed by thank-you letters' positive conclusions (11)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

merchandise

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'retail' is the definition.
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'worker overwhelmed by thank-you letters' positive conclusions' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'worker' could be 'hand' (hand is a kind of worker) and 'hand' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for merchandise that I've seen before include "Goods for trading" , "Wares" , "traffic" , "Goods for sale" , "Items for sale" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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