Traduction de «general merchandise store » (Anglais → Français) :

Health food stores, of course, we can think of; supplement and nutrition stores, complementary medicine practitioners, pharmacies, drug stores, grocery stores, general merchandise stores and, increasingly, multilevel marketing and through mail order, phone order and now Internet ordering, a plethora of sources where one can buy these products.

When we break it into even smaller groups of retailers, we find that for motor vehicle and parts, on average, it is about 2.5 per cent of revenues; home furnishings, about 3 per cent; electronics, about 3 per cent; and building materials, about 4 per cent. When you get into food and beverages and gasoline stations, we are below 2 per cent profit margins, and for general merchandise stores, it is even less than 1 per cent. These are considerably small margins where there is not a whole lot of opportunity and certainly does not show that small retailers are cranking in the revenues and adding it into their profit levels.

The general merchandise sector is slightly skewed by the fact that we have traditional department stores grouped together with the new kind of general merchandisers.