This article is of the utmost importance to the project, as it provides key information about a major topic that is fundamental to a study of the subject. Core topics about retailing. Generally, these topics are sub-articles of the main Retailing article, vital for the understanding of retail or extremely notable to people outside of the retail field. Articles of this importance should be general, broad retailing concepts and multinational retail companies
This article is very important to the project, as it covers either a general area of knowledge or provides information about a significant topic. Deeper, but still general concepts of retail, national chains that have little to no importance outside their country.
This article is relatively important to the project, as it provides more specific knowledge of areas that a serious reader would need to understand. High profile individuals and regional chains that are very notable within the field of retail, and well-known outside of it, and can be reasonably expected to be included in any print encyclopedia.
This article is significant but has limited importance to the project, as it expands the reader's overall knowledge of the subject into areas of general interest. Topics of individuals (but not high profile) who worked in retail, specific store locations, small shops (one or two).
Subject is of the lowest level of relevance or significance to its field of study. This article has no real significance to the project, but it covers additional topics of general or specific interest, some of which could be described as trivia, though all are notable in their own right. Others may be articles of high importance to another project that have an indirect connection with retail. The category was created by the WikiProject to counter-balance "top importance" and to place "mid-importance" into the actual middle. In addition it serves to separate trivia from articles of low but significant importance. Articles should be otherwise obscure retail trivia (like unopened stores) and articles that are tangentially related to retail.
