What is Retail?
{{unsourced|date=July 2014}} [[File:Tofu in China 03.jpg|thumb|Retailer selling [[tofu]]]] '''Retail''' is selling goods or items to the people who will use them. This is different from [[wholesale]], which is selling to a retailer. According to Oxford Dictionary, Retail is the sale of goods to the public in relatively small quantities for use or consumption rather than for resale.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/retail|title=retail {{!}} Definition of retail in English by Oxford Dictionaries|website=Oxford Dictionaries {{!}} English|access-date=2018-02-23|archive-date=2016-09-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160927172335/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/retail|url-status=dead}}</ref> Retailers buy [[finished goods]] or items directly from a [[Manufacturing|manufacturer]] or a [[wholesale]]<nowiki/>r and then distribute in smaller quantities to the final consumer who has a need for such items. For instance, when we buy shoes to wear or food to eat, we buy from a retailer. Retailing can be done at shops and stores. This includes [[department store]]s, [[mall]]s and [[market]]s where stalls or stands are set up at a cleared area. Another way of purchasing retail items is by ordering them by mail, telephone, Internet or other methods, to be delivered by post or package delivery service such as [[United Parcel Service]]. Some items are sold door-to-door, in which a sales person goes to a possible customers home and tries to sell an item. ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Retail]]