The retail sector includes two main types of retailers store and non store retailers.

With 15 million retail outlets, India has the highest retail outlet density in the world.

In the area of retail, the increasing popularity of modern format large shops, for example retail outlets outside city centres, has given rise to concerns about small shops vanishing.

There are few modern retail stores, and these are concentrated in urban areas.

The salesgirl left the line connected to the shop.

The list of outlets and stores surveyed is determined in consultation with the staff representatives.

He wanted a new kind of store a new one a store that had a cultural role as well as a retail one.

From a global perspective, both retailers and e commerce firms are transforming from a single channel to a multi channel retail system that encompasses physical stores, e commerce, mobile terminals and social media.

That was cool because then I had retail outlets.

Store retail services can be classified according to size, business format, and product mix or specialization.

(b) About 30,000 children and young people work in a shop, supermarket, kiosk or service station

Retailers have internationalized through franchising, especially in the speciality store segment, where restrictions on commercial establishment were in effect.

And we have a handshake with one of the large retail grocers to sell our orchids in all 240 stores in six states.

Wholesale and retail trade

While the first operates fixed point of sale locations, non store retailers or retailers away from a fixed location reach customers and market merchandise with methods such as broadcasting infomercials , paper and electronic catalogues, door to door solicitation and selling from portable stalls.

On these platforms which resemble eBay and Amazon Marketplace manufacturers, retailers, and individuals offer products and services to consumers through online storefronts. By contrast, in the US, Europe, and Japan, roughly 70 of the market is composed of e tailers running their own Web sites, whether online only merchants like Amazon or traditional brick and mortar retailers such as Carrefour, Dixons, and Walmart.

At present most Vietnamese retailers are small, family run outlets, offering a limited choice of products to their customers.

The Perekriostok group, the Russian Federation's leading supermarket chain, has emerged in these conditions to become the fifth largest retailer in Europe and the ninth in the world in terms of retail sales.

Re regulation, for example in the area of town planning acts, customs code and store hours, have created a more favourable atmosphere for the operation of retail stores.

Producers are also engaging in direct sales to consumers through on line retailing, bypassing retailers.

There are different retailing formats corner store, cash and carries, convenience stores, specialized stores, department stores, discount stores, hypermarkets, superstores, supermarkets, warehouse clubs, supercentres, mail order catalogue sales, and virtual stores.

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The top 100 retailers (see table 3) account for 25 per cent of worldwide retailing sales.

Mr. Ali worked at various retail stores and attended classes at a technical college.

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The retailer will not pull out entirely of any of the top markets where it currently operates stores, but will look to close stores that are in weak locations.

Indeed, the Indian government s decision to welcome foreign retailers coincided with French retailer Carrefour s announcement that it will shut down its substantial operations in Singapore by the end of this year. Meanwhile, its British counterpart, Tesco, is shifting away from the large hypermarket format and investing heavily in online systems.

These are 10 companies control much of what's in our grocery stores, much of what people eat. And that's really, really a problem.

And at one time, such a large batch of store closures might have been viewed as a retailer's concession of defeat.

Five large foreign retail chains are operating in the Vietnamese market at present, while many others are waiting for approval.

Some products enter the market through wholesalers who in turn distribute the products to a variety of retailers, while in other cases the producer sells directly to the retailer.

The distribution sector includes commission agents, wholesalers and retailers who act as enablers of trade.

Only by combining online and offline operations will new retail come into being.

The Euro Retailer Produce Working Group (EUREP) is a European based trade organization for retailers.

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The liberalization of the distribution sector in China has implied benefits for example, the development of different distribution formats, including specialty stores, the enhancement of local marketing and managerial capacity, and the possibility for domestic manufacturers to enter the international supply chain of foreign retailers (95 per cent of the products distributed by foreign retailers in China are locally sourced and foreign retailers export Chinese products abroad).

Both online e commerce platforms and offline retail stores have their respective strengths and weaknesses, and consumers are present at various channels. Therefore, both parties are attempting the multi channel model.

Recent monthly figures suggest a pick up in retail sales. But, because the official statistics capture mostly sales by larger retailers and exclude the fall in sales by hundreds of thousands of smaller stores and businesses that have failed, consumption looks better than it really is.

The retail giant has said it plans to close 100 stores.

Informal retailers could become the suppliers or the customers of formal retailers, or their franchises.

Retailers are distributors selling to end consumers.

They cater to retailers and to other wholesalers, and, for example in the food business, to what are called institutional customers , such as restaurants, hospitals, and catering services.

(d) Importation wholesale and retail businesses (foreign country).

Foreign sales represent a significant share in total sales of the main European retailers.

They watched in horror as Amazon, en route to becoming the world s largest online retailer, pushed the bookstore chain Borders into bankruptcy, and have wondered if they will be next. The American discount retailer Walmart, reportedly concerned that it is cannibalizing its own sales, has gone so far as to stop selling Amazon s Kindle tablets.