Wholesale
wholesale (noun) - buying and selling large quantities of goods to sell again in smaller amounts for a profit to other businessesretail (noun) - selling goods directly to customers in stores
the company changed focus from wholesale to retail
wholesale prices
news that wholesale prices surged by 1.1 per cent
wholesale prices jumped to an all-time high
wholesale inflation
sold this year for five dollars a box wholesale
wholesale prices rose just two-tenths of a percent last month
the wholesale prices of gasoline have been falling over the last several days.
you usually get them at wholesale, you know, they're good bargains
the CRB Index measures expectations of higher inflation at the wholesale level,
wholesale prices were steady in February
wholesale trade
wholesale versus retail
working in wholesale
borrowing from wholesale banks
the wholesale business
a wholesaling business
a wholesale business
a wholesale distributor
the wholesale division of the firm
the wholesale group within the company
wholesale goods
wholesale products
sales in the wholesale market
the wholesale sector
the wholesale trade
wholesale outlets
can be bought wholesale
we have no intention of getting in the wholesale business at this time.
her red-necked husband had made a fortune in the wholesale fruit business
the dealer's wholesale cost was a mere $14,400
wholesale distributors
wholesale middlemen
wholesale clubs to sell merchandise in bulk to small businesses
wholesale infrastructure
supplies wholesale low volume, high margin electronic components and instruments to such customers as electricians and small businesses
aggressive competition for deposits which began in the wholesale markets has spread to the retail sector
centres for the wholesale and retail distribution of a huge variety of goods
Example sentences:
* Frankfurt: Prices fell sharply on inflation worries after news that wholesale prices surged by 1.1 per cent.
* I've enquired into the question of coconuts, and they can be bought wholesale.
* In 1983 Walton started Sam's Wholesale Clubs, to sell merchandise in bulk to small businesses.
* This increase in the comparability of building society and bank deposits has meant that the aggressive competition for deposits which began in the wholesale markets has spread to the retail sector.
* Right now, no established wholesale or retail infrastructure exists to channel these new products to the customers.
* It may be that the ex-employee is now working in an entirely different area of that business, such as wholesale, whereas his former employer's business is retail.
* They raise funds for these purposes by borrowing mainly from wholesale banks, taking deposits from insurance companies, pension funds, companies and some private individuals.
* The four have fairly considerable wholesale banking business while the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, whose temporary building was considerably damaged, was offered dealing room space in the Bank of England.
* Millions of retail and wholesale outlets are given in the yellow pages of the telephone directory collection, which covers all of Western Europe, as well as most of the world's principal markets.
* Between 1970-;71 and 1980-;81, per capita income rose by 143 per cent, and the wholesale prices of all commodities rose by 150 per cent.
* The other distribution business, Farnell Electronic Components, supplies wholesale low volume, high margin electronic components and instruments to such customers as electricians and small businesses, promising overnight delivery.
* He did not proceed to university in his seventeenth year but was instead apprenticed for £630 to the London wholesale grocery firm of Newnham and Shipley, in Watling Street It was a large indenture payment and coming, as it did, soon after his father's death in March 1743, was probably intended to secure a profitable mercantile future for him.
* And when in 1863 the Co-operative Wholesale Society was set up, it was on the basis that participating stores should contribute capital and share in the profits.
* These women are at the heart of the economy --; markets are the main centres for the wholesale and retail distribution of a huge variety of goods and the market workforce can exercise considerable political muscle, as their taxes are one of the main sources of income for the local government.
* In the early eighteenth century the old-established trading oligarchy of Barcelona and the Catalan towns was conservative: wholesale trade was reputed noble and the merchants of Barcelona wore the sword.
