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Coupon. In marketing, a coupon is a ticket or document that can be redeemed for a financial discount or rebate when purchasing a product . Customarily, coupons are issued by manufacturers of consumer packaged goods [ 1] or by retailers, to be used in retail stores as a part of sales promotions. They are often widely distributed through mail ...
Merchant category code. A merchant category code ( MCC) is a four-digit number used for retail financial services to classify a business by the types of goods or services it provides. Codes are specified by the ISO 18245 standard.
Retail is the sale of goods and services to consumers, in contrast to wholesaling, which is sale to business or institutional customers. A retailer purchases goods in large quantities from manufacturers, directly or through a wholesaler, and then sells in smaller quantities to consumers for a profit. Retailers are the final link in the supply ...
A grocery store ( AE ), grocery shop ( BE) or simply grocery[ 1] is a foodservice retail store that primarily retails a general range of food products, [ 2] which may be fresh or packaged. In everyday U.S. usage, however, "grocery store" is a synonym for supermarket, [ 3] and is not used to refer to other types of stores that sell groceries.
Price look-up codes, commonly called PLU codes, PLU numbers, PLUs, produce codes, or produce labels, are a system of numbers that uniquely identify bulk produce sold in grocery stores and supermarkets. The codes have been in use since 1990, and over 1400 have been assigned. [ 1] The codes are administered by the International Federation for ...
Retail format. The retail format (also known as the retail formula) influences the consumer's store choice and addresses the consumer's expectations. At its most basic level, a retail format is a simple marketplace, that is; a location where goods and services are exchanged. In some parts of the world, the retail sector is still dominated by ...
A UPC barcode. The Universal Product Code ( UPC or UPC code) is a barcode symbology that is used worldwide for tracking trade items in stores. The chosen symbology has bars (or spaces) of exactly 1, 2, 3, or 4 units wide each; each decimal digit to be encoded consists of two bars and two spaces chosen to have a total width of 7 units, in both ...
This "code" is one of many innocuous sounding secret codes that stores use to alert employees to problems without distracting you from shopping. We tracked down some current and former retail ...