The devil will of course be in the detail, and one outstanding question is how ruthless the banks will be in restricting redress to those small businesses that are so small that they are the equivalent of retail customers in the FSA's rules.
The retail equivalent of the melting Arctic ice cap.
Think of it as the retail equivalent of the Green Bay Packers — a department store owned by its customers that will not pick up and leave when a better opportunity comes along or a corporate parent takes on too much debt.
From an organic balm with more than 22 uses to a peach nut oil that cleans faces, surfboards and pets, each product is a multitasker — the retail equivalent of time in a bottle.
Even better, on the sales tags, you will see numbers so unthinkable they could be the retail equivalent of math's imaginary numbers — you know, like i, the square root of -1?
Feeling the pangs of conscience, they are shopping on the down-low, finding deals in places that are the retail equivalent of a safari on a private game reserve.
St Ives Bookseller 2 Fore Street, St Ives, Cornwall TR26 1AB, 01736 796676 The latest outlet to be opened by Ron and Marion Johns of Mabecron Books, this is one of Britain's smallest bookshops, but its clever oak shelving makes it the retail equivalent of Mary Poppins's carpet bag.
This would be the retail equivalent of an atomic bomb dropped on the retail economy in Gotham.
For economic and environmental reasons, Governor Shumlin should consider Wal-Mart as the retail equivalent of a nuclear power plant.
The retail equivalent of the broiler industry (which accounts for most commercial chicken production) in the United States was $44 billion in 2008; in 2007, Georgia led the country by producing 16% of all broilers (3 ).
