[Tagging] Re-organizing food "things"?

[Richard Welty]

  On 9/27/10 1:08 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> because not everyone to whom you give money to get something can be
> considered a retailer. Wikipedia states:"In commerce, a "retailer"
> buys goods or products in large quantities from manufacturers or
> importers, either directly or through a wholesaler, and then sells
> smaller quantities to the end-user. Retail establishments are often
> called shops or stores. Retailers are at the end of the supply chain."
the wikipedia definition is narrower than actual usage, then. i spent
4+ years as a software developer at a major US bank, and we definitely
distinguished between "retail banking" (where customers walked up to
teller windows or sat down with agents) and "wholesale banking" (major
customers who interacted with us in a distinctly different manner.)
which is certainly outside the wikipedia definition...

richard