However, business is going well for us in the retail trade.
Domestic retail trade last year was only about level with 1993.
Retail trade and the service sector are also important to the economy.
Employment in retail trade is expected to increase by 4 percent.
Even within the retail trade the issue is still debated.
Retail trade is the next largest industry, with approximately 2,000 workers.
It is the main center of wholesale and retail trade.
The economy added 30,000 jobs, almost half of them in retail and wholesale trade.
"Stay out of the retail trade," his grandfather Al had often told him.
Retail trade continued to add jobs in December, with a gain of 28,000.