Difference between departmental store and retail store?

Answer 1

SNo.

Basis of Difference

Departmental Stores

Multiple Shops

1.

Meeting ofCustomers'Needs

In these stores, the customers get all theirneeded items at one and the same place.

In these shops, only one or two items of customers' needs are available.

2.

Nature ofItems Sold

In these stores, the luxu­rious items are mostly sold.

In these shops, things of common people's use are sold.

3.

PersonalizedService

Besides supplying the things, various kinds of personal services are also provided by these stores to the customers, e.g. reading room, hair-cutting saloons, canteens, etc.

By these shops, nopersonalized services are provided to their custo­mers.

Answer 2

Super Market is a merchandising market that sells mostly consumable items, such as food and household products; a larger version of a gorcery store. On the other hand, a Department store is a retail establishment that sells consumer goods, like clothes, housewares, shoes, and etc. Hypermarket is what you get when you combine the two sects in one establishment.

Answer 3

There is little difference between a department store and a retail store. A retail store may offer many brands, and a department store may only offer one.

Answer 4

there is hardly any difference between a retailer and a supermarket except for the size. One might say that supermarkets are nothing but a big "kirana ki dukaan".