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• n  someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers

• It also inked a deal with Ticketmaster and bought a custom-vacation wholesaler as well as an off-line business-travel agency.
• A wholesaler or retailer who dares to defy his captain or queen may find himself boycotted throughout the market, or, failing that, stuck with a stock of spoiled potatoes or .
• Bailey's husband Bill, it turns out, is a logging-equipment wholesaler.

• jobber
• middleman

News & Articles

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• Wholesaler accuses potato co-op of price-fixing
  BOISE, Idaho -- A battle between grocers and potato growers has been silently hitting shoppers' pocketbooks, according to a U.S. wholesaler accusing America's spud farmers of driving up prices while spying on farmers with satellites and aircraft fly-overs to enforce strict limits on how many tubers they can grow. Associated Wholesale Grocers' lawsuit against United Potato Growers of America and ...
  June 14, 2013 - The Arizona Republic
• Grocers allege potato group pumped up spud prices
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A battle between grocers and potato growers has been silently hitting shoppers' pocketbooks, according to a U.S. wholesaler accusing America's spud farmers of driving up prices while spying on farmers with satellites and aircraft fly-overs to enforce strict limits on how many tubers they can grow.
  June 14, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• ID Wholesaler Named to Internet Retailer’s Top 500 List for Fifth Consecutive Year
  The largest photo identification products retailer ranks on Internet Retailer’s annual Top 500 Guide. (PRWeb June 12, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/id-wholesaler/internet-retailer/prweb10824737.htm
  June 12, 2013 - PRWeb

Quotes

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• August Busch IV in MarketWatch
  Anheuser-Busch achieved solid sales and earnings per share growth for the quarter and first half of the year,said August A. Busch IV, president and chief executive officer of the company. "US beer shipments and wholesaler...
• Eliot Spitzer in International Herald Tribune
  As a result of these supplier and wholesaler agreements, the illegal schemes that benefited a favored few have ended,Spitzer said. "The result is that thousands of smaller stores, bars and restaurants will now be able to compete on a level...
• Graeme Samuel in Sydney Morning Herald
  The evidence also suggested that the removal of Coopers as an independent beer wholesaler also would be unlikely to raise substantial competition concerns,Mr Samuel said.