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retail warehouse

 
 
noun [C] COMMERCE

Definition

a large store that sells a particular product in large quantities to customers at low prices: We recently opened our retail warehouse, selling brand new ex-catalog items. Based on Wal-Mart, the US retail warehouse phenomenon, Matalan was founded in the mid-1980s in Manchester by John Hargreaves.
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