Are you interested in online retail or offline? If it's online, you need a website that will generate traffic. You'll find the best company that will help you achieve that is SiteBuildIt.
You can
do it yourself, or you can
pay them to do it for you. They are well known for providing clients with the tools and resources necessary to create a website that draws free traffic from the search engines.
Whether you want your retail business to be online or offline, you need products at low prices so you can make a profit. The most reliable and well known provider of wholesalers and/or dropshippers is a company called
Worldwide Brands. You can buy the products in bulk and resell them yourself online or off. OR, you can set up accounts so that you sell the products at whatever price you want and have them dropshipped directly from the company to your customer without you having to handle it at all.
Well, that's something to get you started reading and considering. Those are some of the most reliable companies in their fields. You can and should do some research on them so you can confirm their reputation.
All the best.
Regards,
Angie