Definition of Retail

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Retail

The sale of commodities in small quantities or parcels; -- opposed to wholesale; sometimes, the sale of commodities at second hand.

Done at retail; engaged in retailing commodities; as a retail trade; a retail grocer.

To sell in small quantities, as by the single yard, pound, gallon, etc.; to sell directly to the consumer; as, to retail cloth or groceries.

To sell at second hand.

To distribute in small portions or at second hand; to tell again or to many (what has been told or done); to report; as, to retail slander.

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Retail Quotations

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
William James

Know how to effectively voice a complaint or make a claim at a retail store.
Marilyn vos Savant

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
Publilius Syrus

For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.
Howard Nemerov

Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student.
Patricia Heaton

You replace it by 23 percent tax, a frank, transparent tax embedded in the cost at retail, and everybody gets to takes their whole check home. And the average income earner gets a 50 percent increase in take-home pay.
John Linder

I mean, our primary businesses in wholesale pipelines, utilities, retail, were all doing extremely well.
Kenneth Lay

Well, there's no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market.
Gray Davis

No one in my family had a retail or marketing background. They were professionals. They didn't understand just what I was doing by going into retailing. After I started, though, it got into my blood. I knew this was what I wanted.
Andrea Jung

We also never undercut representatives' prices. A representative will always be able to sell the discounts in our core business, which are not offered at retail. So it's never more advantageous to buy there.
Andrea Jung

Retail Translations

retail in German is Kleinverkauf, Einzelhandelsabsatz, Kleinverkauf
retail in Hungarian is kiskereskedelem
retail in Italian is commercio al dettaglio
retail in Spanish is venta al por menor
retail in Swedish is detaljhandels

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