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retail services
Related terms: retail service area · customer service area
Retail spaces where customers purchase actions, personal services, or use of a facility.
Service areas are retail spaces where actions, instead of goods, are purchased. These actions can include the simple use of the facility as well as specific human interactions.
A transaction can pay for someone to perform an action or simply for access to a facility. A human interaction is therefore not required in every instance.
Shops are identified by customers purchasing physical goods and taking them away. Ownership of a product and payment for a service are different transaction purposes, even when the same establishment accommodates both.