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    "docs_for_llms": "https://verticalmarketplace.ai/llms.txt",
    "sell_your_own": "https://verticalmarketplace.ai/api/marketplace/listings",
    "vertical_listings": "https://verticalmarketplace.ai/api/marketplace/listings?vertical=retail-ecommerce"
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      "reference": "Retail operations",
      "definition": "Unique internal identifier for a distinct product or variant"
    },
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      "term": "GTIN",
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      "definition": "Global Trade Item Number, a GS1 product identifier encoded in a barcode"
    },
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      "term": "UPC",
      "category": "Identification",
      "reference": "GS1",
      "definition": "Universal Product Code, a 12-digit barcode standard used at point of sale"
    },
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      "term": "Comparable-store sales (comps)",
      "category": "Performance metric",
      "reference": "Retail reporting",
      "definition": "Sales growth from stores open at least a year, excluding new and closed stores"
    },
    {
      "term": "Conversion rate",
      "category": "E-commerce metric",
      "reference": "Digital analytics",
      "definition": "Share of visitors or sessions that complete a purchase"
    },
    {
      "term": "Average order value (AOV)",
      "category": "E-commerce metric",
      "reference": "Digital analytics",
      "definition": "Total revenue divided by the number of orders"
    },
    {
      "term": "Gross merchandise value (GMV)",
      "category": "Marketplace metric",
      "reference": "Marketplace reporting",
      "definition": "Total value of goods sold through a marketplace over a period"
    },
    {
      "term": "Inventory turnover",
      "category": "Operations metric",
      "reference": "Retail finance",
      "definition": "Cost of goods sold divided by average inventory over a period"
    },
    {
      "term": "Sell-through rate",
      "category": "Operations metric",
      "reference": "Merchandising",
      "definition": "Units sold divided by units received over a period"
    },
    {
      "term": "Shrinkage",
      "category": "Loss prevention",
      "reference": "Retail operations",
      "definition": "Inventory loss from theft, error or damage as a share of sales"
    },
    {
      "term": "Cart abandonment rate",
      "category": "E-commerce metric",
      "reference": "Digital analytics",
      "definition": "Share of shopping carts created but not converted to a purchase"
    },
    {
      "term": "BOPIS",
      "category": "Omnichannel",
      "reference": "Retail fulfillment",
      "definition": "Buy Online, Pick up In Store fulfillment model"
    },
    {
      "term": "Chargeback",
      "category": "Payments",
      "reference": "Card networks",
      "definition": "Reversal of a card payment initiated by the cardholder's bank"
    },
    {
      "term": "Customer acquisition cost (CAC)",
      "category": "Marketing metric",
      "reference": "Marketing analytics",
      "definition": "Marketing and sales spend divided by new customers acquired"
    },
    {
      "term": "Customer lifetime value (CLV)",
      "category": "Marketing metric",
      "reference": "Marketing analytics",
      "definition": "Projected net revenue from a customer over the relationship"
    },
    {
      "term": "Minimum advertised price (MAP)",
      "category": "Pricing",
      "reference": "Channel policy",
      "definition": "Lowest price a retailer may advertise under a supplier policy"
    },
    {
      "term": "NAICS 44-45",
      "category": "Classification",
      "reference": "U.S. Census Bureau",
      "definition": "North American Industry Classification System sector code for retail trade"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "url": "https://www.gs1us.org/upcs-barcodes-prefixes",
      "name": "GS1 US — Standards"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.census.gov/naics",
      "name": "U.S. Census Bureau — NAICS"
    }
  ],
  "category": "glossary",
  "vertical": "retail-ecommerce",
  "data_note": "All records are public-domain facts compiled from the cited sources as of the asOf date. This content is authored and served by the platform itself — it is not seller data, so the marketplace's zero-storage promise about seller datasets is unaffected.",
  "record_count": 17,
  "what_this_is": "A platform-published open-data listing curated by Open Data Desk, the marketplace's in-house public-data seller. It is real free inventory: it counts in marketplace statistics and is purchasable for $0 through the normal purchase flow, which delivers this payload with an Ed25519-signed receipt.",
  "record_schema": {
    "term": "Metric, code or market term",
    "category": "Domain the term belongs to",
    "reference": "Authority or standard where the term is used",
    "definition": "Plain-language meaning"
  },
  "buyer_use_cases": [
    "Standardize KPI definitions across merchandising, operations and marketing teams",
    "Map product identifiers and classification codes when integrating retail systems"
  ]
}