Retailing

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

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

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

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.

Openbravo is a commercial open-source software company.

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.

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

The Society of St Vincent de Paul is an international Catholic voluntary organization dedicated to tackling poverty and disadvantage by providing direct practical assistance to anyone in need, addressing social and material needs in all its many forms.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

retailTRUST is a charity based in North London which aims to support those working in the retail industry in the U.

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

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.

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.

Retail Systems Research, or RSR is an American market intelligence company focused on the impact of technology on the retail industry.

MEVA International is a private Iranian company that supplies PC accessories to the international market.

Stitch Fix is an online subscription and personal shopping service in the USA.

Zeeman is a European chain store with about 1,000 establishments in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, France, and Luxembourg.

Joseph E. Grosberg (December 27, 1883 – July 25, 1970) was a pioneer in the American supermarket and wholesale foods industries.

The Endeavour Recycled Clothing Thrift Store (trading as ERC) is the fifth largest chain of thrift stores in Australia and is operated by the Endeavour Foundation.

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

Selena Etc. (January 27, 1994 – July 1, 2009) was a South Texas-based boutique, salon, and clothing store, which was built by the late Latin superstar, Selena.

Anita Mai Tan is a Canadian jewelry designer who is currently the owner and main designer of AlGems.

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

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

Amstor Retail Group is a commercial property management company in Ukraine that operates 12 shopping centres in six big cities of central and eastern Ukraine.

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

Symphony GOLD provides software solutions to retailers, distributors and manufacturers and is a Symphony Technology Group business.

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