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retail - the selling of goods to consumers; usually in small quantities and not for resale. marketing, merchandising, selling - the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money. wholesale - the selling of goods to merchants; usually in large quantities for resale to consumers.
Retail comes from the Old French word tailler, which means to cut off, clip, pare, divide in terms of tailoring (1365). It was first recorded as a noun with the meaning of a sale in small quantities in 1433 (from the Middle French retail, piece cut off, shred, scrap, paring).