Retail Glossary

A

Anchor Store
Average Transaction Value (ATV)
Average Order Value (AOV)
Aging Inventory
Audit

B

Backward Intergation
Balance Sheet
Bar code
Backorder
Beauty Store
Big Box Retailer
Brick and Mortar
Brick and Click
BOPIS
Bounce Rate
Boutique
Brand Equity
Breadth
Broken Sizes
Bulk
Bundle Pricing

C

Card Terminal
Carrying cost
Cannibalization
Category Killer
Cashwrap
Cash and Carry Wholesaler
Category Management
Chain Store
Chargeback
Click and Collect
Clearance Sale
Clienteling
Cloud POS
Cost-of-Goods (COGS)
Comps
Consignment
Convenience Store
Consumers
Conversion
Cross Selling
Customer Lifetime Value

D

Days Sales in Inventory
Dead Stock
Department Store
Demographics
Depth
Direct-to-Consumer (DTC)
Discount
Distribution Channel
Dollar Store
Doorbuster

E

Everyday Low Price (EDLP)
Ending Inventory
Email Blast
Excess Inventory

F

Fast Fashion
Fashion Pyramid
Fashion Seasons
Fashion Week
Financial Statements
Footfall
Forward Integration
Forward Stock Cover
Franchise
Franchisee
Franchisor
Free Cash Flow

G

GMROI
Grocery Store
Gross Margin

H

Hard Goods
Haute Couture
Hypermarket

I

Independent Retailer
Intake Margin
Inter-Branch Transfer (IBT)
Inventory Allocation
Inventory Management
Inventory Turnover

J

Jewelry Retailer

Jewelry Wholesaler

K

Kiosk

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

L

LFL
Look Book
Loss Leader
Loss Prevention
Luxury Brand
Luxury Buyer
Luxury Conglomerate
Luxury Retail
Lifestyle

M

Mail Order Business
Markdown
Markup
Manufacturer
Mass Market Retailer
Merchandise
Merchandise Hierarchy
Merchandising
MOQ
MSRP

N

NOOS

O

Off Price
Online Merchandising
Online Retail
Omnichannel
Operating Expenses
Open to Buy
Open air shopping center
Order Lead Time

P

P&L Management
Payment Terms
Penetration Pricing
Physical Inventory Count
Planogram
Pop-Up Shop
Premium Brand
Prestige Pricing
Price Lining
Price Skimming
Pricing Power
Private Label
Psychographics
Product Assortment
Product Mix
Purchase Order Lead Time

Q

Quarter To Date (QTD)

R

Ready-To-Wear
Replenishment
Reporting Period
Retail
Retail Arbitrage
Retail Business
Retail Buying
Retailer
Retail Management
Retail Math
Retail Media Networks
Retail Operations
Retail Price
Retail Sales
Retail Sales Associate
Retail Store
Retail Shrinkage
Retail Supply Chain
Retail Therapy
Return Fraud

S

Sales Equation
Sales Mix
Sales Per Square Foot (SPSF)
Sales Volume
Same Store Sales
Seasonality
Sell Through Rate
Shipping Terms
Showrooming
Shrinkage
Shrinkflation
Size Curve
Size Run
Sociographics
Social Commerce
Soft Goods
Specialty Store
Stocktake
Stock Obsolescence
Store Brand
Store Layout
Store Manager
Store Owner
Supply Chain