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Retail generally refers to individuals as customers and small business customers. Generally it takes place in local branches, online sites, and bank by phone. The same bank may serve commercial customers but typically these customers have an assigned officer and a special terminal in their Treasury Department to transact business. Investment banks focus on the capital markets.
What is Retailing? Retailing is a distribution channel function where one organization buys products from supplying firms or manufactures the product themselves, and then sells these directly to consumers. A retailer is a reseller (i.e., obtains product from one party in order to sell to another) from which a consumer purchases products. In the US alone there are over 1,100,000 retailers according to the 2002 US Census of Retail Trade.