More than 90% of the retail transactions in India are in cash.

Ms. Heisel began accepting cards for retail transactions in February.

Typical uses of the card are car parking, office canteens, and for small retail transactions.

In retail transactions, auctions take consumers another step away from the face-to-face dealings once central to village life.

One easy way for Congress to help states facing fiscal devastation is to allow them to collect taxes from online retail transactions.

From 4 percent of retail transactions last year, leases rose to 14 percent in the first quarter, he said.

Last year 16 percent of Ford's retail transactions were leases.

Therefore, the committee said that Stratton could not do such trading with its customers - known as "principal retail transactions" - for a year.

They claim that over 275,000 persons, come into the city daily, for employment, education, medical care,retail, wholesale and transport transactions.

Today, 70 percent of Citibank's retail transactions are handled electronically.