Shopkeeper droids, also known as vendor droids or shopkeeping drones, were a type of droid designed to function as merchants. They were proprogrammed to be obsequious and desire to make customers happy. The GL vendor droid was a model of shopkeeper droid. Jawas modified R1-series astromech droids into R1-type shopkeeping drones.
Shopkeeper droids first appeared in the 1999 film , the first installment of the Star Wars prequel trilogy. They were first identified as such in the StarWars.com episode guide for "Duchess of Mandalore," the fourteenth episode of the canon animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars' second season. In the third season episode "Evil Plans," a masculine shopkeeper droid was voiced by Dee Bradley Baker while in the fifth season episode "Eminence" a feminine one was voiced by Anna Graves.
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