This document discusses the history and definition of retail, how retail is classified by product type and marketing type, pricing strategies, transaction methods, challenges, benefits to the economy, and Indian retail market statistics. It notes retail originated from the old French word meaning "to cut off" and was first used to describe small quantity sales. It also lists types of retail stores and products.

2.  Meaning & History
 Classified by type of
products
 Classified by type of
marketing
 Retail pricing
 Transfer mechanism
 Second-hand retaill
 Nature
 Challenges
 Benefits
 Indian retail market
statistics
 Total Market Size
 Awards

3. Retail comes from the old
french word “teiler”, which means
“to cut off, clip, pare, divide” in
terms of tailoring.It was first
recorded as a noun with the
meaning of a “sales in small
quantities”

4.  Food products
 Hard goods
 Soft goods

5.  Department stores
 Discount stores
 Variety stores
 Specialty stores
 General stores
 E-marketing

6.  Cost- plus pricing
 Suggested retail pricing

7.  Counter service
 Delivery
 Door-to-door
 Self-service

12.  Regulatory
 Tax
 Absence of development
 Competetion
 Education
 Finance

13.  Finance
 Economic standard
 FDI
 Economic development
 Society
 Product reach

21.  Racie Awads
 Retail industry award