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micro-retailing

micro-retailing noun: a retail model including things like small-scale pop-up shops and boutique storefronts that leverage a variety of innovative downsized activities.

Noun

micro-retailing

  1. (neologism) A retail model including things like small-scale pop-up shops and boutique storefronts that leverage a variety of innovative downsized activities.
    • Micro-retailing helps create unique, in-person customer experiences. It can drive your brand’s convenience and make the most of the modern omnichannel shopping world. It even makes it easier for retailers to create physical human connections (all while staying within budget).2020 November 11, “What Is Micro-Retailing? Why & How Retailers Are Going Small”, in Shopify
  2. (neologism) A small, demographically targeted store with a focus on a small selection of popular products.
  3. (neologism) Small, independent, family owned business in a developing nation.

Origin of micro-retailing

From micro- + retailing. Grew in popularity as ecommerce merchants experiment with opening lower-risk physical retail spaces.

Questions about micro-retailing

What does micro-retailing mean?
Micro-retailing means a retail model including things like small-scale pop-up shops and boutique storefronts that leverage a variety of innovative downsized activities.
What part of speech is micro-retailing?
Micro-retailing is a noun.

Words near micro-retailing in the dictionary

  1. micro-processor
  2. micro-processors
  3. micro-pulling-down
  4. micro-region
  5. micro-regions
  6. micro-retailing
  7. micro-retiree
  8. micro-retirees
  9. micro-retirement
  10. micro-retirements
  11. micro-scale

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Adapted from Wiktionary: micro-retailing (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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