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Retail - - Ans✔✔-a business that sell products and/or services to consumers
Retailing - - Ans✔✔-the method by which consumers acquire products/services
Manufacturer - - Ans✔✔-produces the products
Wholesaler - - Ans✔✔-buys large quantities of products directly from the
manufacturer, breaks them into smaller units, and sells the smaller units to
retailers
Retailer - - Ans✔✔-receives, stores, displays, and sells the products to
customers
, Retail represents a wide variety of formats: - Ans✔✔-Convenience Stores
Department Stores
Direct Selling
Discount Stores
Off-Price Retailers
Closeout Stores
Outlet Stores
Retail represents a wide variety of formats pt. 2: - Ans✔✔-Pure Play: started
online and continue to do business online
Specialty Stores
Supercenters
Supermarkets
Thrift Stores
Wholesale Clubs
Types of Ownership:
Independent Establishment - - Ans✔✔-typically a single store or a small,
regional chain
Types of Ownership: Corporate Chain - - Ans✔✔-company operates multiple
stores under common ownership, centralized decision making
Types of Ownership: Franchises - - Ans✔✔-license granted to another party to
market a company's goods/services in a particular territory