Retail comes from the Old French chat tailer (compare avant-garde French retailler), which agency "to cut off, clip, pare, divide" in agreement of dressmaking (1365). It was aboriginal recorded as a noun with the acceptation of a "sale in baby quantities" in 1433 (from the Middle French retail, "piece cut off, shred, scrap, paring").2 Like the French, the chat retail in both Dutch and German (detailhandel and Einzelhandel, respectively) additionally refers to the auction of baby quantities of items.
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