The phrase "alternative retail" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe non-traditional or unconventional methods of selling goods or services, often emphasizing unique or niche markets.
Example: "The rise of alternative retail has led to a surge in pop-up shops and online marketplaces that cater to specific consumer interests."
Alternatives: "non-traditional retail" or "alternative commerce".
Iconic outlet: On Lange Reihe, the alternative retail thoroughfare, you can pick up anything from vinyl to a hat.
The wage also rose above the alternative Retail Prices Index (RPI) every year except between 1999 and 2000.
In Illinois, for example, more than 650 communities switched their power source through contracts with alternative retail energy suppliers (ARES).
What I meant was that consumers easily adapt to alternative retail channels.
Bonobos: Like Shoes of Prey, the menswear brand Bonobos created its brick-and-mortar Guideshops as alternative retail spaces.
Similar to the way Warby Parker has disrupted the eyewear market in the U.S. Lema21 is hoping to provide an alternative retail site for eyewear in Brazil.
It is part of an experiment in alternative retailing (inconspicuous consumption) which the company launched in 2004.
In a press release directly referencing Turing Pharmaceuticals Daraprimm price hike, rivals Imprimis announced it would be selling a new pyrimethamine-based alternative retailing at less than $1 per pill.
A recent survey of this kind of "alternative retailing" by Audio magazine pointed out that a Nakamichi cassette deck normally sold for $1,800 could be had for $1,100 at a gray market store in Los Angeles.
Many young adults are turning to a fast-growing constellation of alternatives: retail clinics carved out of drugstores or big box retail outlets, free-standing urgent care centers that tout evening and weekend hours, and online telemedicine sites that offer virtual visits without having to leave home.
But as the business of filling prescriptions also shifts from expensive branded pharmaceuticals to much cheaper generic alternatives, retail pharmacists, particularly large chains like Walgreen's, are having much more success in persuading employers and health plans to allow people the choice of using drugstores for their medications for chronic ailments.
