The phrase "affect retail" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the impact or influence of something on the retail industry or market.
Example: "The new tax policy is expected to affect retail sales significantly this quarter."
Alternatives: "impact retail" or "influence retail".
Switching costs mostly affect retail banking, since with big corporate loans or underwriting, switching costs are significantly smaller relative to the amount of money at stake.
While these trades do not affect retail investors, they are causing at least temporary problems for large dealers and institutional investors, who expect eventually to complete the trades.
Despite the importance of the topic, few empirical studies have examined how pedestrian volumes along street networks affect retail prosperity in urban spaces.
Hong Kong's residential property prices have fallen from their recent highs mainly because of government measures intended to cool demand — but those measures do not affect retail rents.
The cartel's members pump almost 40percentt of the world's oil, and their decision will affect retail prices for gasoline and other refined products in importing countries like the United States.
"The energy price run-up is probably going to affect retail employment in March, because people will be spending more of their money on gasoline and heating oil and not at the mall," Mr. Resler said.
The seismic changes affecting retail has everybody talking.
Weather also affected retail sales and significantly reduced automobile sales in early February in the Dallas district.
Rhona Hamilton, a spokeswoman with Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple, said the pricing reversal also affected retail stores and other online distributors of Apple products.
It wants the productivity commission to look at the how wind-generated electricity affects retail electricity prices, and is urging that the Clean Energy Regulator release any information it has proving that wind power is reducing the amount of carbon emissions.
Given regulators' mandate to protect retail investors, they will be able to use the model to learn how large liquidity demand affects retail investors and to determine if they benefit or suffer from large price pressures due to sudden strong liquidity demand.
