Flashcards: Retailing

A peddler, in British English pedlar, also known as a canvasser, cheapjack, monger, higler or solicitor (with negative connotations since the 16th century), is a traveling vendor of goods.

A sex shop (also called adult shop, erotic shop or adult book store) is a retailer that sells products related to adult sexual or erotic entertainment, such as vibrators, lingerie, clothing, pornography, and other related products.

Chain store(s) or retail chain are retail outlets that share a brand and central management, and usually have standardized business methods and practices.

A convenience store is a small retail business that stocks a range of everyday items such as groceries, snack foods, confectionery, toiletries, soft drinks, tobacco products, magazines and newspapers.

A grocery store is a retail store that primarily sells food.

A vending machine is a machine that dispenses items such as snacks, beverages, alcohol, cigarettes, lottery tickets to customers automatically, after the customer inserts currency or credit into the machine.

Packaging is the technology of enclosing or protecting products for distribution, storage, sale, and use.

Cyber Monday is a marketing term for the Monday after the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States.

Door-to-door is a canvassing technique that is generally used for sales, marketing, advertising, or campaigning, in which the person or persons walk from the door of one house to the door of another, trying to sell or advertise a product or service to the general public or gather information.

Black Friday is the day following Thanksgiving Day in the United States (the fourth Thursday of November).

A cash register, also referred to as a Till in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries, is a mechanical or electronic device for registering and calculating transactions at a point of sale.

A pawnbroker is an individual or business (pawnshop or pawn shop) that offers secured loans to people, with items of personal property used as collateral.

Retail involves the process of selling consumer goods or services to customers through multiple channels of distribution to earn a profit.

A discount store is a retail store which sells products at prices that are lower than the typical market value.

In the broadest sense, merchandising is any practice which contributes to the sale of products to a retail consumer.

A second-hand shop is a shop which sells goods that are not new.

Shopping channels are television specialty channels targeted towards home shoppers consumers by broadcasting product demonstrations or explanations.

A video game store is a store established primarily for the sale of video games.

Massification is a strategy that some luxury companies use in order to attain growth in the sales of product.

The packaging and labeling of food is subject to regulation in most regions/jurisdictions, both to prevent false advertising and to promote food safety.

Non-store retailing is the selling of goods and services outside the confines of a retail facility.

Super Saturday or Panic Saturday is the last Saturday before Christmas, a major day of revenue for American retailers, marking the end of the shopping season they and many customers believe begins on Black Friday.

A shopping cart (in the United States), trolley (in the UK, New Zealand, South Africa and Australia) or buggy (in some parts of the United States and Canada) is a cart supplied by a shop, especially supermarkets, for use by customers inside the shop for transport of merchandise to the checkout counter during shopping.

Used bookstores buy and sell used books and out-of-print books.