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Topic overview

Retail is the sale of goods and services from individuals or businesses to the end-user. Retailers are part of an integrated system called the supply chain. A retailer purchases goods or products in large quantities from manufacturers directly or through a wholesale, and then sells smaller quantities to the consumer for a profit. Retailing can be done in either fixed locations like stores or markets, door-to-door or by delivery. Retailing includes subordinated services, such as delivery. The term "retailer" is also applied where a service provider services the needs of a large number of individuals, such as for the public.

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This project aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of retail-related topics.

  • Improve articles about retailing companies and chains and make them consistent, using existing style guides such as Wikipedia:Companies, corporations and economic information as guidelines, and devising new ones when needed. For entries on retail companies, this project will create a content structure guide since none exists currently.
  • Bring mature articles that are within this project's scope to Good article and featured article status. For example, although the entries on Target Corporation and Wal-Mart are currently not featured articles, it is indeed this project's goal to improve them with the ultimate intention to bring them there.
  • Define store types consistently. By this, readers should be able to discriminate between a discount store from a department store, since this may be ambiguous in some articles.

The scope of this project covers articles of retailing companies (e.g. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.), chains (existing and defunct), topics (e.g. department store, hypermarket, etc.), and people (e.g. John Geisse). Please see the article list below for articles that are within our scope.

Guidelines on how you may choose to structure an article on a company or retailer.

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  1. Tuxide (t c)
  2. Caldorwards4
  3. J.reed (t c)
  4. Yankeyfan315
  5. SchuminWeb (Talk)
  6. Wackymacs
  7. DrCash
  8. Kamikaze Highlander
  9. — Deckill e r
  10. Jake
  11. TenPoundHammer
  12. Pafcool2
  13. Skeezix1000 (t c)
  14. rickster77
  15. johnandbob
  16. BizMgrt,c
  17. Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) - May, 2008 (Talk) I am particularly interested in cooperatives
  18. Xde 13
  19. 68DANNY2 - Sept. 2008
  20. Mjquinn_id (talk · contribs) - Nov. 2008 = Templates and Categories
  21. IrishDragon - Nov. 2008
  22. Tsange - April. 2009
  23. Bungle (talk · contribs) Sept 2009
  24. dreamshop78 (talk · contribs) Sept 2009
  25. Mananshah15 (talk · contribs)
  26. Usgrant7 June 2012 (talk) 18:09, 28 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  27. sillybillypiggytalk to me sign! 16:28, 25 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  28. Bosalino (talk) 03:03, 17 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  29. GbySmn talk2me09:40, 29 April 2013 (UTC
  30. New worl (talk) 06:02, 4 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  31. Northamerica1000(talk) 17:39, 14 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  32. Writeasong (talk) 11:13, 9 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  33. MichaelIvan 05:08, 6 February 2017
  34. Tfkalk (talk) 01:46, 8 August 2019 (UTC) (UTC)[reply]
  35. Windyshadow32 (talk) 21:40, 17 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  36. Jmbld (talk) 21:29, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  37. Pillowcrow (talk) 17:26, 19 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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WikiProject article importance scheme

Importance Criteria Example
 Top This article is of the utmost importance to the project, as it provides key information about a major topic that is fundamental to a study of the subject. Core topics about retailing. Generally, these topics are sub-articles of the main Retailing article, vital for the understanding of retail or extremely notable to people outside of the retail field. Articles of this importance should be general, broad retailing concepts and multinational retail companies Department store, Walmart
 High This article is very important to the project, as it covers either a general area of knowledge or provides information about a significant topic. Deeper, but still general concepts of retail, national chains that have little to no importance outside their country. Credit, Target Corporation
 Mid This article is relatively important to the project, as it provides more specific knowledge of areas that a serious reader would need to understand. High profile individuals and regional chains that are very notable within the field of retail, and well-known outside of it, and can be reasonably expected to be included in any print encyclopedia. Robert E. Wood, Boscov's
 Low This article is significant but has limited importance to the project, as it expands the reader's overall knowledge of the subject into areas of general interest. Topics of individuals (but not high profile) who worked in retail, specific store locations, small shops (one or two). Edward A. Brennan, Sears, Roebuck and Company Department Store (Washington, D.C.)
 Bottom Subject is of the lowest level of relevance or significance to its field of study. This article has no real significance to the project, but it covers additional topics of general or specific interest, some of which could be described as trivia, though all are notable in their own right. Others may be articles of high importance to another project that have an indirect connection with retail. The category was created by the WikiProject to counter-balance "top importance" and to place "mid-importance" into the actual middle. In addition it serves to separate trivia from articles of low but significant importance. Articles should be otherwise obscure retail trivia (like unopened stores) and articles that are tangentially related to retail. Auschwitz Supermarket
 NA Subject importance is not applicable. Generally applies to non-article pages such as redirects, categories, templates, etc. Category:Retailing
 ??? Subject importance has not yet been assessed. ???
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