🛒 Selling to public 🛒 To sell goods 🛒 By single sale

retail

2.8

In a way that sells goods to individual customers instead of in bulk

adverb
/ˈriːteɪl/

: al por menor

Many items are available both wholesale and retail.

I just, I really, you know, don't really care about not paying retail anymore.

Examples

Many customers prefer to buy retail rather than in bulk.
He prefers to sell his handmade goods retail rather than in bulk.
We can supply the product retail to individual customers.
The new smartphone is available for retail price.
He prefers to sell his handmade goods retail instead of in bulk to attract individual customers.
You can buy this gadget retail at local stores or online.
Many customers prefer to shop retail for unique items rather than purchasing in large quantities.

Antonyms

wholesale

3.3

At a price for selling goods in large amounts to shops or other businesses

Compounds

retail store

27 1.0

A shop that sells goods in small amounts directly to people

retail price

14 1.8

The amount a customer pays in a store that includes the store's extra charge

retail chain

4 2.8

A group of stores owned or run by the same company that sell similar goods

retail market

2 2.9

A place where shops or websites sell things and services directly to customers

retail marketing

Specialized

1 3.4

To tell people about goods and sell them directly to customers in shops or online

retail merchant

2.8

A person or company that sells goods to people in small amounts for them to use

retail price index

5.0

An official measure of how consumer prices change over time

How Retail

retail

2.8

to wholesale

3 3.7

Surface Forms

retail positive

Etymology

Retail used as an adverb comes from the old idea of selling items 'by the piece', so to sell something retail means to sell it to individual customers rather than wholesale.