Retail
A project whose premises sell to visiting customers: shops, department stores, showrooms and shopping centres, with their stock and staff areas.
How it connects
Retail is a kind of Commercial.
Retail is served by Back of House (Retail), Checkout, Consultation Room, Fitting Room, Pet Spa, Pickup Area, Returns Area, Sales Floor, Showroom Bay, Stock Room and Visual Merchandising Zone.
Other kinds of Commercial: Hospitality, Industrial and Workplace.
In other taxonomies
- Shopping complexesUniclass, Co_20_50_78theirs is narrower
- Shop unitsUniclass, En_20_50_80theirs is narrower
- retail stores (built works)Getty AAT, 300005361nearly the same
- retailWikidata, Q126793nearly the same
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
Top of the axis
Retail
4 terms, Hospitality to Industrial
The word “retail”
3 meanings
Record
Beneath commercial. A restaurant or cafe is hospitality, and a shop inside a hotel is part of a hospitality project. Defined 2026-10-15; vendored without a definition.
- Broader
- Commercial
- Provenance
- authored@instruments/taxonomy published corpus
For machines
Permanent address
/id/sector/retailKnowledge graph
Stored incoming and outgoing relations from the public V1 graph. Ancestors, descendants, and siblings are labelled as derived views rather than stored facts.
- has-conceptSectorincoming
- has-conceptSectorincoming
- narrowerCommercialincoming
- belongs-to-axisSectoroutgoing
- belongs-to-facetSectoroutgoing
- broaderCommercialoutgoing
- served-byBack of House (Retail)outgoing
- served-byCheckoutoutgoing
- served-byConsultation Roomoutgoing
- served-byFitting Roomoutgoing
- served-byPet Spaoutgoing
- served-byPickup Areaoutgoing
- served-byReturns Areaoutgoing
- served-bySales Flooroutgoing
- served-byShowroom Bayoutgoing
- served-byStock Roomoutgoing
- served-byVisual Merchandising Zoneoutgoing
- servesBack of House (Retail)incoming
- servesCheckoutincoming
- servesConsultation Roomincoming
- servesFitting Roomincoming
- servesPet Spaincoming
- servesPickup Areaincoming
- servesReturns Areaincoming
- servesSales Floorincoming
- servesShowroom Bayincoming
- servesStock Roomincoming
- servesVisual Merchandising Zoneincoming
Derived hierarchy views
- ancestor (derived)Commercialoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Hospitalityoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Industrialoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Workplaceoutgoing
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uniclass | Co_20_50_78 | Shopping complexes | theirs is narrower |
| Uniclass | En_20_50_80 | Shop units | theirs is narrower |
| Getty AAT | 300005361 | retail stores (built works) | nearly the same |
| Wikidata | Q126793 | retail | nearly the same |