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RETAIL

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 201 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RETAIL  , the

sale of goods or commodities in small quantities to the immediate consumer, opposed to a sale wholesale or in
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gross . The O . Fr. retaille, from which the word is taken, meant a piece cut off, from tailler, to cut, Med .
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Lat. taleare, Lat. talea, a rod, cutting for planting . The
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English meaning appears in Anglo-French and in the
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Italian retaglio, selling by the piece .

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