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Spruce Beer Sellers in Jamaica, from Harper's Monthly Magazine, Vol. XXII, 1861, p. 176. A marketplace, market place, or just market, or mart is a location where people regularly gather for the purchase and sale of provisions, livestock, and other goods. [ 1] In different parts of the world, a marketplace may be described as a souk (from the ...
Amazon Marketplace. Amazon Marketplace is an e-commerce platform owned and operated by Amazon that enables third-party sellers to sell new or used products directly to consumers on a fixed-price online marketplace alongside Amazon's regular offerings. Using Amazon Marketplace, third-party sellers gain access to Amazon's customer base, and ...
A farmers' market (or farmers market according to the AP stylebook, [ 1][ 2] also farmer's market in the Cambridge Dictionary [ 3][ 4]) is a physical retail marketplace intended to sell foods directly by farmers to consumers. Farmers' markets may be indoors or outdoors and typically consist of booths, tables or stands where farmers sell their ...
A convenience store may also be called a cold store, party store (), bodega (New York City), carry out, mini-market, mini-mart, corner shop, deli or milk bar (Australia), dairy (New Zealand), superette (New Zealand, parts of Canada, and in parts of the US), corner store (many parts of English-speaking Canada and New England), a späti (from 'spätkauf' (lit. 'buy-late') in Germany, a konbini ...
A grocery store , grocery shop or simply grocery [1] is a foodservice retail store that primarily retails a general range of food products, [2] which may be fresh or packaged. In everyday U.S. usage, however, "grocery store" is a synonym for supermarket , [ 3 ] and is not used to refer to other types of stores that sell groceries .
Chain store. A chain store or retail chain is a retail outlet in which several locations share a brand, central management and standardized business practices. They have come to dominate many retail markets, dining markets, and service categories in many parts of the world. A franchise retail establishment is one form of a chain store.
An online shop evokes the physical analogy of buying products or services at a regular "brick-and-mortar" retailer or shopping center; the process is called business-to-consumer (B2C) online shopping. When an online store is set up to enable businesses to buy from another businesses, the process is called business-to-business (B2B) online shopping.
Interior of the Galerie Vivienne in Paris, by Francois Jean Delannoy, 1823-1826 [2] A shopping center ( American English ), shopping centre ( Commonwealth English ), also called a shopping complex, shopping arcade, shopping plaza or galleria, is a group of shops built together, sometimes under one roof. [3] The first known collections of ...