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  • n  the activities involved in selling commodities directly to consumers
  • v  be sold at the retail level
  • v  sell on the retail market

  • After years of denouncing discount houses as the slums of retailing, traditional retailers have begun to see the force of the old dictum: if you can't lick 'em, join 'em.
  • Selling by catalogue, which long ago ceased being aimed mostly at rural America, today is the fastest-growing trend in retailing since the birth of the discount store.
  • Three Manhattan stores were busy as beavers last week catching up with a prime long-term retailing trend.
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  • Richard Branson in MCV
    Virgin Group's founder and chairman Richard Branson added: "In the last six years we have been withdrawing from entertainment retailing which is no longer viewed as core to the Group's future." "We now choose to franchise our global...
  • Dhirubhai Ambani in The Australian
    I believe that organised retailing in India is poised to take off to the next orbit of growth, and that your company is well equipped to be a national leader in this space,he said in his chairman's address to shareholders. "Over the next...
  • Carl Icahn in United Press International
    Keyes "has a strong multi-unit retailing background and an impressive record of introducing new customer-focused technologies into a business that have driven financial results," Blockbuster board member Carl Icahn said in a statement.

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