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Retail Manager

Abel Ybarra Tell us about your work---what do you do? I manage a sporting goods store with 15 employees under me. I make sure that the customer is…

Clothing Buyer---Retail

Anonymous What do you do? I work in the retail industry as a buyer for a specialty-clothing store. What skills are needed…

store

(Encyclopedia) store, commonly a shop or other establishment for the retail sale of commodities, but also a place where wholesale supplies are kept, exhibited, or sold. Retailing—the sale of…

e-commerce

(Encyclopedia) e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such…

North Miami Beach

(Encyclopedia) North Miami Beach, residential and resort city (1990 pop. 35,359), Dade co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; inc. 1931. It is a major office and retail area.

Roosevelt, town, United States

(Encyclopedia) Roosevelt, uninc. residential town (1990 pop. 15,030), Nassau co., SE N.Y., on Long Island. A large retail business exists in Roosevelt, and the town has become the county's busiest…

fair-trade laws

(Encyclopedia) fair-trade laws, in the United States, a former group of statutes that permitted manufacturers to specify the minimum retail price of a commodity. The first fair-trade law was adopted…

Stewart, Alexander Turney

(Encyclopedia) Stewart, Alexander Turney, 1803–76, American merchant, b. Lisburn, Co. Antrim, Ireland. Arriving in New York c.1820, he started in business in 1823 by selling Irish laces. In 1846 he…

Hicksville

(Encyclopedia) Hicksville, uninc. city (2020 pop. 43,869), Nassau co., SE N.Y., on Long Island; founded 1648. It is chiefly residential, with…

Dauphin, town, Canada

(Encyclopedia) Dauphin Dauphin dôˈfĭn [key], town, SW Man., Canada, on the Vermilion River. It is the retail and…