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Office Depot
Office Depot is an American office-products retail and business-to-business brand founded in 1986 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and taken private by Atlas Holdings in 2025.
Parisian (department store)
Parisian was a department store chain founded in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1877, known for upscale merchandise and generous service until Belk retired the name in 2007.
Pepco (retailer)
Pepco is a pan-European variety discount retailer selling family clothing, household goods, and toys at low prices, operating over 4,000 stores across Central, Eastern, and Western Europe and serving 41 million customers a month.
Pepe's Piri Piri
Pepe's Piri Piri is a British franchise chain of takeaway, 100% halal, flame-grilled piri-piri chicken shops founded in Watford in 2006, grown to over 250 UK locations with sites in the UAE and Pakistan.
PetSmart
PetSmart Inc. is the largest pet specialty retailer in North America, operating nearly 1,700 stores in the US, Canada, and Puerto Rico with grooming, boarding, training, and veterinary services.
Pier 1 Imports
Pier 1 Imports was an American specialty retailer of imported furniture and home furnishings, founded in 1962, that peaked at 1,003 stores before filing for bankruptcy in 2020.
Piggly Wiggly
Piggly Wiggly is an American franchised grocery brand founded in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1916 by Clarence Saunders, whose first store introduced self-service shopping to a mass market.
Pinduoduo (拼多多)
Pinduoduo (拼多多) is a Chinese social e-commerce platform where buyers form teams on social networks to unlock lower group prices, launched in 2015 and operated by PDD Holdings alongside Temu.
Poundland
Poundland, trading as Dealz in Ireland and the Isle of Man, is a British discount variety retailer founded in 1990, known for its £1 price point and about 800 stores.
Poundstretcher
Poundstretcher is a British variety discount retailer selling food, household goods, and garden products from about 300 stores, owned by the Fortress Funds since April 2024.
Price Chopper (Northeastern United States)
Price Chopper, also branded Market 32, is a supermarket chain of 129 stores across six Northeastern states, headquartered in Schenectady, New York, and owned by Northeast Grocery.
Private label
A private label, also called a store brand or own label, is a product made by a third party but sold under a brand owned by the retailer.
Psychedelic mushroom store
A psychedelic mushroom store, also called a magic mushroom store, is a venue selling or administering psilocybin mushrooms, spanning licensed US service centers, Dutch truffle shops, and gray-market dispensaries.
RadioShack
RadioShack is an American consumer-electronics retail chain founded in Boston in 1921, which collapsed through bankruptcies in 2015 and 2017 and survives as a brand.
Receipt
A receipt, also called a sales slip, is a printed or digital document recording a completed sale and serving as proof of purchase for returns, warranties, and expenses.
REI
REI, or Recreational Equipment, Inc., is an American consumer co-operative retailer of outdoor gear and apparel, founded in Seattle in 1938 and now the largest consumer co-operative in the United States.
Represent (clothing brand)
Represent is a British luxury streetwear brand founded in 2011 by brothers George and Mike Heaton in Manchester, known for weekly drops and its 247 activewear line.
Retail
Retail, also called retail trade, is the sale of goods and services in small quantities to end users; retailers buy from manufacturers or wholesalers and resell.
Retail apocalypse
The retail apocalypse, also called retail Armageddon, is a media label for the wave of US chain-store closures and bankruptcies beginning around 2017, driven by e-commerce, overbuilding, and private-equity debt.
Retail industry
The retail industry comprises businesses selling merchandise in small quantities to the public without transforming it; in the US it is NAICS sectors 44-45, Retail Trade.
Retailing in India
Retailing in India is the sale of goods to consumers in a roughly US$1 trillion market, still dominated by millions of small family-run kirana stores rather than chains or e-commerce.
Rite Aid
Rite Aid was an American drugstore chain founded in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1962 that grew to more than 2,000 stores before closing completely in October 2025.
Roots Canada
Roots Canada is a Canadian lifestyle brand and retailer of apparel, leather goods, and footwear, founded in Toronto in 1973 by Michael Budman and Don Green.
Saks Fifth Avenue
Saks Fifth Avenue, also known as Saks & Company, is an American luxury department store chain founded in New York in 1924 by Horace Saks and Bernard Gimbel.
Sanrio (サンリオ)
Sanrio (サンリオ) is a Japanese character licensing company founded in Tokyo in 1960 by Shintaro Tsuji, known for Hello Kitty and more than 450 characters, earning most of its revenue from royalties.
Saravana Stores
Saravana Stores is a family-owned discount retail group in T. Nagar, Chennai, founded in 1969 on Ranganathan Street, known for its low margin, high turnover model and cheap prices.
Savers
Savers, operating as Value Village, is a for-profit thrift-store chain in the United States, Canada, and Australia that buys donated goods from nonprofits and resells them.
Screwfix
Screwfix, formerly the Woodscrew Supply Company, is a British retailer of trade tools and building supplies owned by Kingfisher, with 979 UK and Irish stores and £2.755 billion in sales.
Sears
Sears, also known as Sears, Roebuck and Co., was an American mail-order and department-store company that became the world's largest retailer before filing for bankruptcy in 2018.
Sephora
Sephora is a French prestige beauty retailer owned by LVMH since 1997. Founded in 1969 in Limoges, France, it sells cosmetics, skincare, and fragrance worldwide.