retail warehouse

retail warehouse
retail warehouse UK US noun [C] COMMERCE
a large store that sells a particular product in large quantities to customers at low prices: »

We recently opened our retail warehouse, selling brand new ex-catalog items.

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Based on Wal-Mart, the US retail warehouse phenomenon, Matalan was founded in the mid-1980s in Manchester by John Hargreaves.


Financial and business terms. 2012.

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