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Bob's Discount Furniture
Bob's Discount Furniture, also known as Bob's Furniture, is an American value furniture retailer founded in 1991 in Newington, Connecticut, and headquartered in Manchester, Connecticut.
Boot Barn
Boot Barn is the largest US specialty retailer of western and work-related footwear and apparel, founded in 1978 and operating 539 stores in 49 states as of March 2026.
Bricks & Minifigs–Reckless Ben controversy
The Bricks & Minifigs–Reckless Ben controversy is a 2026 dispute between YouTuber Reckless Ben and the Utah-based LEGO resale chain over a consigned Star Wars collection.
Brooks Brothers
Brooks Brothers is an American menswear retailer founded in New York in 1818, the oldest US apparel brand in continuous operation, known for the button-down oxford shirt.
Build-A-Bear Workshop
Build-A-Bear Workshop is an American specialty retailer, founded in 1997 by Maxine Clark, where guests stuff, dress, and name their own teddy bears, with over 660 stores worldwide.
Burlington (discount store)
Burlington Stores, also known as Burlington Coat Factory, is an American off-price retailer founded in 1972 in New Jersey, with 1,287 stores and $11.5 billion in sales.
Cabela's
Cabela's is an American specialty retailer of hunting, fishing, camping, and shooting-sports gear, begun as a 1961 Nebraska mail-order business and acquired by Bass Pro Shops in 2017.
Camden Market
Camden Market, also called Camden Lock Market, is a group of markets by Regent's Canal in Camden Town, London, founded 1974 with 16 stalls, now London's largest market with about 28 million annual visitors, owned since 2014 by Teddy Sagi's Market Tech.
Canadian Tire
Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited is a Canadian retail conglomerate founded in 1922 by the Billes brothers, operating more than 1,400 dealer-owned stores plus a bank and a real estate trust.
Cannabis dispensaries in the United States
A cannabis dispensary is a state-licensed US retail store selling medical or adult-use marijuana, with 14,932 stores nationwide as of February 2024 despite continuing federal prohibition.
CarMax
CarMax is the largest national used-car retailer in the United States, selling vehicles at fixed no-haggle prices from 250 stores and financing purchases through CarMax Auto Finance.
Carousell (company)
Carousell, also known as Carousell.com, is a Singapore-headquartered online classifieds and recommerce group founded in 2012, operating brands including Mudah.my and Cho Tot across seven Asian markets.
Cartier (jeweler)
Cartier, formally Société Cartier, is a French luxury jeweler and watchmaker founded in 1847 and owned by Richemont, known for the Santos, Tank, and Love collections.
Category management
Category management, also known as commodity management, is a retail and supplier process that manages groups of related products as strategic business units, developed by Brian Harris around 1989.
Chain store
A chain store, also known as a multiple store, is one of a group of retail outlets selling the same kind of merchandise under common ownership and central control of buying, planning, and warehousing.
Circuit City
Circuit City was an American consumer-electronics retailer founded in 1949 in Richmond, Virginia, as Wards Co.; profits peaked around 2000 and its 567 U.S. stores liquidated in 2009.
Coles Supermarkets
Coles Supermarkets, formerly Coles New World, is an Australian supermarket chain with 870 stores and about 29% of national grocery sales, owned by Coles Group since 2018.
Company store
A company store, also known as a plantation store, is a retail store owned by an employer in single-industry settlements like coal camps, often selling to captive workforces.
Consumer behaviour
Consumer behavior, also called buyer behavior, is the study of how individuals and households select, buy, use, and dispose of goods and services, from need recognition through purchase to post-purchase experience.
Country Road Group
Country Road Group is an Australian apparel, accessories, and homewares retail group headquartered in Melbourne, whose brands include Country Road, Trenery, Witchery, Politix, and MIMCO.
Coupang
Coupang is a South Korean e-commerce retailer founded in 2010, known for Rocket Delivery, which promises dawn delivery of orders placed by midnight through its own logistics network.
Crate & Barrel
Crate & Barrel, also known as Crate and Barrel, is an American specialty retailer of housewares, furniture, and home decor founded in 1962 and owned by the Otto Group.
Currys
Currys is a British technology and electricals retailer founded in 1884, listed in London, trading in the UK and Ireland and as Elkjøp in the Nordics, with 691 stores.
Currys plc
Currys plc, formerly Dixons Carphone, is a British electricals and technology retailer operating 691 stores across 6 countries, formed by the 2014 merger of Dixons Retail and Carphone Warehouse.
CVS Health
CVS Health, formerly CVS Corporation and CVS Caremark Corporation, is an American healthcare company combining about 9,000 retail pharmacies, the Caremark PBM, and Aetna insurance.
CVS Pharmacy
CVS Pharmacy is the largest chain of retail pharmacies in the United States, with about 9,000 stores, and serves as the retail arm of CVS Health Corporation.
Cyber Monday
Cyber Monday is the Monday after Thanksgiving in the United States, promoted since 2005 for online discounts and now the largest online shopping day of the year by revenue.
Daiso (ダイソー)
Daiso, or Daiso Industries Co., Ltd., is a Japanese variety-store chain founded in 1977 and headquartered in Higashihiroshima, known for 100-yen household goods at nearly 5,900 stores worldwide.
Dali Everyday Grocery
Dali Everyday Grocery, whose Swiss parent is Dali Discount AG, is a Philippine hard-discount grocery chain founded in 2020, running over 1,300 small no-frills stores selling mostly private-label goods.
DavidsTea
DavidsTea is a Canadian specialty tea retailer founded in Montréal in 2008 by Herschel and David Segal, selling over 200 proprietary loose-leaf blends through stores, e-commerce, and wholesale.