retail stage

In both cases, Avon is still at the retail stage of the production process.

Competition has reached a point where even the little guys are elbowing their way onto the prime retail stage of midtown Manhattan.

Food reaches the consumer by a complex network, involving production, assembly, sorting, packing, reassembly, distribution and retail stages.

For Mr. Ford, who has been out of the spotlight since leaving Gucci in 2004, the collaboration represents a chance to return to the retail stage.

This is important in countries where it is difficult to enforce a sales tax at the retail stage because there are a large number of small businesses that do not maintain adequate records.

This data set provides monthly average price values, and the differences among those values, at the farm, wholesale, and retail stages of the production and marketing chain for selected cuts of beef, pork, and broilers.

Moreover, combinations of factors can conspire to turn vertical effects into horizontal effects, for example the combination of vertical linkages and the necessity for licences at the retail stage (as in the supply of beer).

Even if this tax were imposed in the pursuit of economic equalisation, the most it would do is to "provide some local justification for the imposition of a protectionist tax in respect of interstate goods at the later retail stage of distribution" (per majority).

There are as we shall see, problems for consumers at the retailing stage in the sense that distribution is notoriously complex and subject to a variety of restrictive practices, but this is a common feature of the domestic market that applies to all consumer products whether Japanese or foreign.