Retail is the process of selling consumer goods or services to customers through multiple channels of distribution to earn a profit. Demand is created through diverse target markets and promotional tactics, satisfying consumers' wants and needs through a lean supply chain. In the 2000s, an increasing amount of retailing is done online using electronic payment and delivery via a courier or postal mail. Retailing includes subordinated services, such as delivery. The term "retailer" is also applied where a service provider services the small orders of a large number of individuals, rather than large orders of a small number of wholesale, corporate or government clientèle. Shops may be on residential streets, streets with few or no houses, or in a shopping mall. Shopping streets may be for pedestrians only. Sometimes a shopping street has a partial or full roof to create a more comfortable shopping environment protecting customers from various types of weather conditions such as extreme temperatures, winds or precipitation. Online retailing, a type of electronic commerce used for business-to-consumer (B2C) transactions and mail order, are forms of non-shop retailing.
Shopping generally refers to the act of buying products. Sometimes this is done to obtain final goods including necessities such as food and clothing; sometimes it is done as a recreational activity. Recreational shopping often involves window shopping (just looking, not buying) and browsing and does not always result in a purchase.

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    Holster Manufacturers and Retail (LINKS) Bookmarks

    Some may find this useful? These are my bookmarked handgun websites. Mainly relevant to holsters and where one might look. #56 Shoulder Holster, A. E. Nelson Leather Co. Concealed Carry Holsters | Concealment Holsters | Alien Gear Holsters Andrews Leather Catalog Full Range of Bianchi...
  2. RicInOR

    National  Where Bad Actors Get Their Guns

    DOJ Report on Where Criminals Get Their Guns | National Review PDF https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/suficspi16.pdf Table 5 is interesting. Data is self reported - that is the authors asked the prisoners.
  3. Hal OPeridol

    Picked up a couple C&R pistols at a big retail store.

    The one in Tulalip. I have had good luck finding stuff there. Recently picked up two pistols there, first was a 1916 Erfurt P08 and the other was a nice Gray Ghost P38. The Luger is all matching except for the magazine, which is a correct wood bottom mag. Bore is bright and shiny.
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    Question: Buying a new rifle through a retail dealer does the rifle get registered throught sb 941

    Or, is it registered as routine only through the feds and the state police???? Thanks. tkdguy
  5. HK45Cobalt

    New Indoor Shooting Range Grand Opening!

    Hey All! Just wanted to get word out that the new indoor shooting range/retail, Safefire LLC was doing their grand opening on April 2nd! Link to the Facebook page for more information, there will be food, vendors, 50% off range time, ammo discounts, gun giveaways and more, so it should be a...
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