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Chromebook Cr-48 prototype • The Cr-48 was intended for testing only, not retail sales. Google addressed complaints that the Operating System offers little functionality when the host device is not connected to the Internet, demonstrated an offline version of Google Docs, and announced a 3G plan that would give users 100 MB of free data each month, with additional paid plans available from Verizon. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
Data mining Business • Another example of data mining, often called the market basket analysis, relates to its use in retail sales https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
E-commerce - Timeline • 2012: US eCommerce and Online Retail sales projected to reach $226 billion, an increase of 12 percent over 2011. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
Microsoft Office - Licensing • In addition to ing retail sales and site-wide installations, Microsoft offers a "Home Use Program" (HUP) permitting employees of a participating organization access to home-use Microsoft Office products. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
Encyclopædia Britannica - Digital encyclopaedias on optical media • Encarta was the top-selling multimedia encyclopaedia, based on total US retail sales from January 2000 to February 2006 https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
Diamond • According to the Rio Tinto Group, in 2002 the diamonds produced and released to the market were valued at US$9 billion as rough diamonds, US$14 billion after being cut and polished, US$28 billion in wholesale diamond jewelry, and US$57 billion in retail sales. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
Seiko Epson - 20th century • The purpose of the program was to help improve sales, improve retail sales reps' knowledge of Epson products and to address Epson customer service in a retail environment https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
PepsiCo • As of January 2012, 22 of PepsiCo's product lines generated retail sales of more than $1 billion each, and the company's products were distributed across more than 200 countries, resulting in annual net revenues of $43.3 billion. Based on net revenue, PepsiCo is the second largest food & beverage business in the world. Within North America, PepsiCo is ranked (by net revenue) as the largest food and beverage business. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
PepsiCo - Products and brands • PepsiCo's product mix as of 2012 (based on worldwide net revenue) consists of 63 percent foods, and 37 percent beverages. On a worldwide basis, the company's current products lines include several hundred brands that in 2009 were estimated to have generated approximately $108 billion in cumulative annual retail sales. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
Ford Motor Company • Fleet sales of Ford for the same period rose 35% to 386,000 units while retail sales increase 19% https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
Chevrolet - Thailand • Production, Retail Sales and Registration of Chevrolet brand in Thailand during 2011 (Units) https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
Chevrolet - Thailand • Model Production Retail Sales Registration https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
Doritos - History • According to Information Resources International, in 1993, Doritos earned $1.3 billion in retail sales, one-third of the total Frito-Lay sales for the year https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
James R. Biard - Life and career • Bob’s mother, Mary Ruth Biard (née Bills), worked as a retail sales person at the Collegiate Shop in downtown Paris https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
Apple Specialist - History • Before the introduction of Apple retail stores, the Specialist resellers, typically locally owned small businesses, were primary contributors to retail sales channel and user support for the computer manufacturer among other Apple-authorized resellers and Value-added resellers. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
Web application • Common web applications include webmail, online retail sales, online auctions, wikis and many other functions. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
Retail - Global top five retailers • Retail Sales Rank Company Country of Origin 2010 group revenue (US $mil) https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
Retail - United States • The United States retail sector features the largest number of large, lucrative retailers in the world. A 2012 Deloitte report published in STORES magazine indicated that of the world's top 250 largest retailers by retail sales revenue in fiscal year 2010, 32% of those retailers were based in the United States, and those 32% accounted for 41% of the total retail sales revenue of the top 250. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
Retail - United States • Since 1951, the U.S. Census Bureau has published the Retail Sales report every month. It is a measure of consumer spending, an important indicator of the US GDP. Retail firms provide data on the dollar value of their retail sales and inventories. A sample of 12,000 firms is included in the final survey and 5,000 in the advanced one. The advanced estimated data is based on a subsample from the US CB complete retail & food services sample. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
MakerBot Industries - Services • In November 2011, MakerBot began its first retail sales of Thing-O-Matic through AC Gears in New York City with a permanent display https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
University of Cincinnati - Dining • UC placed third in the category of 'Retail sales – Single concept'. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
Telecommunications in Iran - Consumer electronics • The digital consumer technology sector is expected to see retail sales in excess of $24 billion by the end of 2008. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
Electronic commerce - Timeline • * 2012: US eCommerce and Online Retail sales projected to reach $226 billion, an increase of 12 percent over 2011. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
Feature phone - Market share • During the mid-2000s, best-selling feature phones such as the fashionable flip-phone Motorola Razr, multimedia Sony Ericsson W580i, and the LG Black Label Series not only occupied the mid-range pricing in a wireless provider's lineup, they made up the bulk of retail sales as smartphones from BlackBerry and Palm, Inc.|Palm were still considered a niche category for business use. Even as late as 2009, smartphone penetration in North America was low. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
Windows XP • Direct Original Equipment Manufacturer|OEM and retail sales of Windows XP ceased on June 30, 2008 https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
Windows XP - Support lifecycle • The company stopped general licensing of Windows XP to OEMs and terminated retail sales of the operating system on June 30, 2008, 17 months after the release of Windows Vista. However, an exception was announced on April 3, 2008, for OEMs installing to ultra low-cost PCs (Netbook|ULCPCs) until one year after the availability of Windows 7 (that is, until October 22, 2010). https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
Virtual good - Virtual goods purveyors • *Cellufun[http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2009-12-23-virtual-retail-sales-avatar_N.htm Unlike reality, virtual retail sales are hot, especially for avatars] USA Today, 23 Dec 2009 https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
Vendor - History • 'Vendor' is often a generic term, used for suppliers of industries from Retailing|retail sales to manufacturers to city organizations. 'Vendor' generally applies only to the immediate vendor, or the organization that is paid for the goods, rather than to the original manufacturer or the organization performing the service if it is different from the immediate supplier. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
Fastenal - Canada • Entering the market in 1994,[http://investor.fastenal.com/common/download/download.cfm?companyid=FASTfileid=275734filekey=1ECE2010-CC49-4A73-B1D4-71B033E9E1A9filename=2008_Presidents_Letter.pdf President’s Letter to Shareholders (2008)] Fastenal Official Site as of 2009 Fastenal had retail sales outlets in every province and two Canadian distribution centers. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
Web apps • Common web applications include webmail, online retail sales, online auctions, wikis and many other functions. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
Portal 2 - Sales • Gamasutra analyst Matt Matthews said that, based on NPD Group data, the outage did not seriously affect retail sales of software, but some developers did report drops in sales https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
Office of Fair Trading - Reputation • * Oil companies retail sales / petrol - in October 2008 the UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown threatened oil companies with an OFT investigation unless lower oil prices were passed to consumers; this was despite several OFT investigations in the past giving the industry a clean bill of health. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
Black Friday (shopping) - United States • The news media usually give heavy play to reports of Black Friday shopping and their implications for the commercial success of the Christmas shopping season, but the relationship between Black Friday sales and retail sales for the full holiday season is quite weak and may even be negative https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
Retailer - United States • The United States retail sector features the largest number of large, lucrative retailers in the world. A 2012 Deloitte report published in STORES magazine indicated that of the world's top 250 largest retailers by retail sales revenue in fiscal year 2010, 32% of those retailers were based in the United States, and those 32% accounted for 41% of the total retail sales revenue of the top 250.Deloitte, Switching Channels: Global Powers of Retailing 2012, STORES, January 2012, G20. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
Indie game - Industry • The expansion of Internet allowed games to be online distribution|distributed online moving beyond retail sales https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
Plug-in hybrid - Production models • Retail sales of the BYD Qin began in Costa Rica in November 2013, and sales in other Latin American countries are scheduled to begin in 2014. The start of retail sales in the Chinese market was rescheduled several times, and deliveries began in mid December 2013. The Cadillac ELR was released to retail customers in the U.S. in December 2013. The ELR is a limited production luxury car|luxury coupé that shares the powertrain of the Chevrolet Volt and has an all-electric range of about . https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
Ford Fusion Energi • The Fusion Energi is a plug-in hybrid unveiled at the 2012 North American International Auto Show, and retail sales in the U.S https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
Feed-in tariff - Oregon • The aggregate cap was divided, based on 2008 retail sales revenue https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
BYD F3DM • A testing program was launched in the U.S. on December 2010 with the participation of the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA). The F3DM was expected to go on sale in the U.S. in 2012 at a price of before any Government incentives for plug-in electric vehicles#United States|government incentives. In October 2011 BYD announced that retail sales will be delayed due to the lack of charging infrastructure. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
BYD F3DM - United States • The F3DM was scheduled to begin retail sales in the U.S. in 2012 at a price of before any Government incentives for plug-in electric vehicles#United States|federal and local incentives. In October 2011 BYD opened its headquarters in Los Angeles, a year behind schedule, and announced that retail sales will be delayed due to the lack of charging infrastructure. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
Natural gas - United States • In the United States, retail sales are often in units of therms (th); 1 therm = 100,000BTU https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
Mitsubishi Outlander P-HEV - Plug-in hybrid • The European version was unveiled at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show and was slated be released for retail sales in July 2013 https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
Ford Motor Corporation - North America • Fleet sales of Ford for the same period rose 35% to 386,000 units while retail sales increase 19% https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
BMW i3 - Europe • Since July 2013 a total of 801 units have been registered in Europe through November 2013, including press fleet vehicles and dealer demonstrators, and just over 400 units corresponds to retail sales. Germany is the leading market. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
Plug-in electric vehicle • , there are over 30 models of highway-capable plug-in electric passenger cars available for retail sales, mainly in the United States, Japan, Western Europe|Western European countries and China https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
BYD e6 - United States • However, in October 2011 BYD opened its headquarters in Los Angeles, a year behind schedule, and announced that retail sales will be delayed at least for 18 months due to the lack of charging infrastructure. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
Lexus - 2000s: Global reorganization • The Altezza and Aristo were previously exclusive to Japanese Toyota retail sales channels called Toyota#Japan|Toyota Vista Store, the Windom was exclusive to Toyota Corolla Store, the Celsior and Harrier were exclusive to Toyopet Store, and the Soarer was previously available at both Toyota Store and Toyopet Store locations https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
All-electric car - 1990s to present: Revival of interest • The Smart electric drive, Wheego Whip LiFe, Mia electric, Volvo C30 Electric, and the Ford Focus Electric were launched for retail customers during 2011. The BYD e6, released initially for fleet customers in 2010, began retail sales in Shenzhen, China in October, 2011. The Bolloré Bluecar was released in December 2011 and deployed for use in the Autolib' carsharing service in Paris. Leasing to individual and corporate customers began in October 2012 and is limited to the Île-de-France area. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html
Mitsubishi i MiEV - Australia • Retail sales to the public began in August 2011 https://store.theartofservice.com/the-retail-sales-toolkit.html