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retail price

retail price

14 1.8
The amount a customer pays in a store that includes the store's extra charge
  • noun
  • /ˈriːteɪl praɪs/
translation icon : precio de venta al público
  • The game's suggested retail price is $59.99.
  • percent off the retail price
  • suggested retail price
  • lower retail price

If you then ask what's the share of the farm cost in the retail price, that also varies a lot.

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Examples

  • Low business expenses translate into lower retail prices for your products.

    Blog text (7)
  • How do I decide on the retail price when different stores sell my items at different prices?

    Blog text (1)
  • Your price can be higher or lower than the retail price if you like.

    Blog text (22)
  • On the economic side, Denmark has some of the highest retail prices of electricity in Europe.

    Blog text (25)
  • His best-selling book, "Finding Love in the 21st Century," is on sale today only at 40% off suggested retail price.

  • Amazon would prefer that publishers simply give a wholesale price and suggested retail price on ebooks.

    Blog text (5)
  • As inflation moderates, they want to bring down retail prices in its store aisles as their own costs start to decline.

  • The retail price for anhydrous ammonia is about $1.00 per gallon.

    Academic text (2006)
  • For local consumers, the loss of the aku (skipjack tuna) fleet has produced higher retail prices for fresh tuna.

    Academic text (1993)
  • The retail price of this smartphone includes all the latest features and technologies.

Synonyms

price
vsretail price
1.0

The amount of money you must pay to buy something

is this amount when charged to final customers after seller markup
asking price
vsretail price
20 3.4

The amount a seller wants for something that is for sale

is the final customer charge after seller markup rather than an initial offer
purchase price
vsretail price
14 2.1

The amount of money you pay to buy something

is the amount final customers pay that includes seller profit
list price
vsretail price
7 2.5

The price a seller shows for a product before any discount

is the price charged to final customers after markup, not pre-discount listing
selling price
vsretail price
6 2.7

The price at which something is sold to buyers

is specifically the amount charged to final customers including seller markup

How Expensive

premium
74 4.3
retail price
14 1.8
list price
7 2.5
low price
52 1.0

Surface Forms

retail price singular
retail prices plural

Morphology

retail + price

The meaning 'price at which a product is sold to the final customer' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'retail' (selling to end consumers) with 'price' (money required to buy an item). This simple noun–noun compositional pattern (contrastable with 'wholesale price') is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English word-formation, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.

Etymology

Retail price comes from the simple shop idea: a shop buys goods and adds a small extra to cover costs and profit before selling to the 'final customer'. The word retail means selling to the 'final customer' and price is the money asked, so retail price is the amount a customer pays.