The phrase "alternative retailer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a retailer that offers different products or services compared to traditional retailers, often focusing on unique or niche markets.
Example: "The rise of the alternative retailer has changed the landscape of shopping, providing consumers with options that are not available in mainstream stores."
Alternatives: "non-traditional retailer" or "specialty retailer".
The internet also offers alternative retailers a platform and clothes can be customised or professionally altered.
In an old factory he created a shopping area with an industrial feel that includes alternative retailers like Electric Chair, a shoe and accessory store, and Urban Outfitters.
The campaigners acknowledge that "going cold turkey is hard", and have worked with Ethical Consumer magazine to provide a guide to alternative retailers for those pledging to boycott Amazon.
If alternative retailers are not queuing up to move into recently vacated shop units, we need to ask what sort of premises they actually want.
"With regard to residential customers in particular, the movement to alternative retailers has been almost nonexistent, and almost all of the movement has been to green power providers," Representative Giannaros said.
"Everyone signed up seems to have really enjoyed the Amazon-free challenge so far – lots of people [are] saying they have actually found it relatively easy to find alternative retailers for their gifts, others say they have been badgering their whole family to join them," said Hay. "I think this may well be the first of many 'Amazon-free' Christmas challenges".
So the man who had hoped to take on "predatory" capitalists with the might of the British state at his elbow, has instead been manning a stall on the high street in Mexborough, in his Doncaster constituency, urging local people to avoid loan-to-own retailer BrightHouse, which has been accused of charging up to three times as much as alternative retailers, and use the local credit union instead.
Alternative retailers with a local flavor pop up in storefronts that are cheap and easy to procure.
Both companies are working to find enough alternative retailers to make up for the loss of Toys R Us' outlets.
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