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Large numbers of builders, property firms and retailers have gone bankrupt.

Known for low-priced general goods, Woolworths has struggled in the face of competition from supermarkets expanding beyond groceries and a new generation of internet retailers.

These should discourage retailers from wasteful practices that lead to the rejection of food on the basis of cosmetic characteristics, and losses in the home due to excessive purchasing by consumers.

Retailers dealing in foreign goods and services.

A recent study graded more than 600 internet retailers on how easy it was for consumers to shop, buy, and pay.

Among large traditional retailers, Walmart recently reported the best results, leading its stock price to surge, while Macy's, Target; and Nordstrom's dropped.

Creative retailers are using the new technologies to innovate just about everything stores do from managing inventory, to marketing, to getting paid.

If you are a manufacturer who relies on outside distributors, then retailers are the ideal partner for collecting old products.

It is certain that the Census procedures, which lump the online sales of major traditional retailers like Walmart with "'non-store retailers" like food trucks, can mask major changes in individual retail categories.

More than drones dropping a new supply of underwear on your doorstep, Apple's massively successful brick-and-mortar-and-glass retail stores and Amazon's small steps in the same direction are what should keep old-fashioned retailers awake at night.

Not to mention the large number of creative new retailers, like Bonobos, that are blending online and offline experiences in creative ways.

So far, the main thing many large retailers have done in response to all this is to open online stores, so people will come to them directly rather than to Amazon and its smaller online rivals.

Some retailers and manufacturers in the clothing, footwear, and electronics industries have launched environmental programs.

That storm has been brewing for some time, and as it has reached gale force, most large retailers are searching for a response.

The big questions are which, if any, of the large traditional retailers will still be on the scene in a decade or two because they have successfully reinvented themselves, which new players will operate busy stores on Main Streets and maybe even in shoppi

All in all, this clearly seems to be a market in which big retailers could profitably apply their gigantic scale, existing infrastructure, and proven skills in the management of product ranges, logistics, and marketing intelligence.

Big retailers must understand these differences before they can identify the segments of European wholesaling in which their particular abilities might unseat smaller but entrenched competitors.

But almost all have ignored the big, profitable opportunity in their own backyard: the wholesale food and drink trade, which appears to be just the kind of market retailers need.

However, none of these requirements should deter large retailers from trying their hand, for those that master the intricacies of wholesaling in Europe stand to reap considerable gains.

Most leading retailers have already tried e-commerce, with limited success, and expansion abroad.

Retailers that master the intricacies of wholesaling in Europe may well expect to rake in substantial profits thereby.

The losers, said retail analyst Neil Saunders, are online-only retailers, especially smaller ones.

This trend, which we believe is still in its infancy, effectively began with retailers and travel providers such as airlines and hotels and will no doubt go further.

Those retailers may face headaches complying with various state sales tax laws.