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Out-of-town shopping centres, such as this one at Bicester in Oxfordshire, have become very common since the 1970s. The lack of space and high cost of land in city centres forced retail developers to look outside urban areas for locations to develop. Rising car ownership and new road developments have meant that out-of-town sites are now often more accessible and attractive than the centres of cities, especially since car parking tends to be free.

Sale of goods and services to a consumer. The retailer is the last link in the distribution chain. A retailer's purchases are usually made from a wholesaler, who in turn buys from a manufacturer.

The large range of retail outlets include vending machines, street pedlars, specialized shops, department stores, supermarkets, and cooperative stores. These are supplemented by auctions, door-to-door selling, telephone selling, and mail order.



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Now money-making, as we say, being twofold, it may be applied to two purposes, the service of the house or retail trade; of which the first is necessary and commendable, the other justly censurable; for it has not its origin in [1258b] nature, but by it men gain from each other; for usury is most reasonably detested, as it is increasing our fortune by money itself, and not employing it for the purpose it was originally intended, namely exchange.
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Thomas, though she was I retail trade,' was permitted to see them and to `get ideas.
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To fill up a work with these scraps may, indeed, be considered as a downright cheat on the learned world, who are by such means imposed upon to buy a second time, in fragments and by retail, what they have already in gross, if not in their memories, upon their shelves; and it is still more cruel upon the illiterate, who are drawn in to pay for what is of no manner of use to them.
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