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Supermarkets
Terms that are in relation to the biggest kind of retail store.
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Dumb terminal
Retail; Supermarkets
A computer terminal, also called a video display terminal (VDT), that is linked to a remote processor.
Host computer
Retail; Supermarkets
A computer's processor that each week sends new and sale items to scanning stores.
Overstoring
Retail; Supermarkets
A concentration of too many retail stores that saturates a market and cuts into the profits of each store.
Inventory loss
Retail; Supermarkets
A condition that occurs when there is less product on hand than should be; resulting in lower sales and shrink.
Cook-chill
Retail; Supermarkets
A cooking and food preservation process for food-service products. Food is cooked, packed, sealed and quick-chilled in a plastic pouch and stored at a temperature below 40 degrees F.
Supermarket
Retail; Supermarkets
A conventional grocery store, but not a warehouse club or mass merchant, with annual sales of two million dollars or more per store.
Department flow
Retail; Supermarkets
A continuous, logical flow from one commodity to another. For example, summertime fruit, to hard fruit, to exotic soft varieties in the display.