This U.S. Census Bureau NAICS-based industry comprises establishments known as mail-order houses and primarily engaged in retailing specialized merchandise other than pharmaceuticals and computer hardware and software, such as coins, collectors' items, craft supplies, grocery items, jewelry, magazines, prerecorded tapes, compact discs, records, seeds, and silverware. Also included are establishments retailing specialized merchandise from catalog showrooms of mail-order houses as well as establishments providing a combination of Internet and mail-order sales.

Cross-References. Establishments primarily engaged in--

Providing telemarketing services on a contract or fee basis for others--are classified in U.S. Industry 561422, Telemarketing Bureaus and Other Contact Centers; and

Retailing merchandise using store and nonstore methods at the same establishment are classified in store retail activities based on the store portion of the activity.