Concept in Definition ABC

Commercial establishment in which products are acquired

The store is a kind of establishment in which people buy goods or services in exchange for the disbursement of a certain amount of money, that is, the monetary value with which the product or service has been assigned. The sale in these establishments is generally retail, that is, the products are sold by unit and it is not It is necessary, as in the case of wholesale, to buy large quantities of a product to be able to buy there.

Personalized attention

Traditionally, stores are small establishments that offer direct attention from a salesperson who advises on the products and services that are available there. sell, in addition, it supposes the presence of a counter or table that fulfills the function of separation, division, of the sales room with respect to the articles that are at the sale. The store would be something like the opposite of Commerce known as free service in which it is the consumer himself,

client, who approaches the articles, chooses them and takes them to the checkout line to pay them. Although currently the term shop is even used to designate the free service businesses that we mentioned, in reality its use to refer to this type is not correct.

So, the main difference that the store proposes to us with respect to the aforementioned shops is the personalized and quite exclusive attention they offer to their customers. In some way we could say that the store allows us a calmer way of shopping, we can appreciate in a way stopped the product, in addition to having a salesperson predisposed to tell us the advantages and scope of the product in question.
This situation does not usually occur in large stores, where there are many people and there are no vendors dedicated exclusively to meeting the demands of consumers.

Stores may be dedicated to marketing a single type of product such as clothing, furniture, decoration objects, food, electronic devices, among others, or offer a wide assortment of products.

Meanwhile, the store can function independently, alone, in a physical space or be integrated into a shopping arcade or shopping center where it will share space with other stores. In both Spain and Latin America, the store is a traditional venue and represents the highest percentage of sales of basic products and food.

Virtual stores

With the rise of new technologies, especially Internet, has become important the virtual store, a website through which users can purchase products online, as if they were in a physical store and of course with the benefit of not having to travel to it, since most offer catalogs with detailed information on the product, photographs and the values ​​with which the client already has all the necessary information to decide their buys.
Also, virtual stores to seduce their buyers who do not like to travel to the physical place to buy offer them payment electronically, through credit cards or credit cards. debit and a product delivery service at your doorstep.

Cloth and stick frame used for lodging in the field and on military raids

Another use of the term store is to designate the frame of sticks or tubes nailed to the ground, which is covered with cloth, leather, or canvas and is used to lodge in the field. "The shepherds rest at night in a tent."
It is about housing, precarious accommodation building of course because of the materials and elements that compose it but that allow shelter from the inclemencies of the weather, feeding, and dressing, among other actions, while people are carrying out some activity in the field.

Also, this type of construction turns out to be common in the military context, called as stores of campaigns, in which soldiers participating in a special mission stay and rest for the duration of their raids. They are also usually the main objective of the enemy side in warlike conflicts, because by attacking them they decimate the resources with which the militia has.

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