retailing

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
retail /ˈriːteɪl/

▶noun the sale of goods to the public for use or consumption rather than for resale. ▶verb also /rɪˈteɪl/ 

• 1 sell (goods) in such a way.

  ■ (retail at/for) be sold in this way for (a specified price).

• 2 recount or relate details of.

– derivatives
retailer noun.

– origin ME: from an Anglo-Norman Fr. use of OFr. retaille ‘a piece cut off’, from retaillier, from re- (expressing intensive force) + tailler ‘to cut’.