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Definitions

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  • noun A commercially-designed experience intended to combine entertainment and retailing.

Etymologies

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Blend of retail and entertainment

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Examples

  • When it's finished, the half-mile "retailtainment" center will be a Vegas-meets-Disneyland pleasure dome with the country's tallest Ferris wheel and first indoor artificial ski slope.

    Is The Mall Dead? 2008

  • When it's finished, the half-mile "retailtainment" center will be a Vegas-meets-Disneyland pleasure dome with the country's tallest Ferris wheel and first indoor artificial ski slope.

    The Open Piehole 2008

  • When it's finished, the half-mile "retailtainment" center will be a Vegas-meets-Disneyland pleasure dome with the country's tallest Ferris wheel and first indoor artificial ski slope.

    The Open Piehole 2008

  • When it's finished, the half-mile "retailtainment" center will be a Vegas-meets-Disneyland pleasure dome with the country's tallest Ferris wheel and first indoor artificial ski slope.

    The Open Piehole 2008

  • Schmoozing at the Sales retail-tainment With people...using big-box stores as their personal playgrounds, a new term has emerged: "retailtainment."

    Week in Words Erin McKean 2011

  • The suffix –tainment was removed from entertainment to create retailtainment (using a store as a place for recreation), and the –nomics of economics was repurposed for words such as likeonomics (using social media to encourage your customers to share their preference for your brand with their friends) and wikinomics (mass collaboration using electronic means).

    2011 in Words 2011

  • With people of all ages using big-box stores as their personal playgrounds, a new term has emerged: "retailtainment."

    In China, IKEA Is a Swede Place for Senior Romance, Relaxation Laurie Burkitt 2011

  • Retail and entertainment are so intertwined for all ages that we have had to invent new words to describe the phenomenon such as "retailtainment" and "Andism shops".

    Evening Standard - Home Helen Kirwan-Taylor 2011

  • Customers are increasingly urged to get involved in the retailtainment.

    Evening Standard - Home Helen Kirwan-Taylor 2011

  • With people of all ages using big-box stores as their personal playgrounds, a new term has emerged: "retailtainment."

    WSJ.com: What's News US 2011

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