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wholesale

[hohl-sayl] / ˈhoʊlˌseɪl /


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Fed officials will also keep a close eye this week on wholesale inflation via the producer-price index, which will be released Thursday.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

TalkTalk has 1.5 million retail customers and one million wholesale customers across the UK.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

He said they opened a store on Fourth Street and Telegraph in Berkeley, then opened another, “then they opened a factory and started selling wholesale, and the business just took off.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

C-suite quote: “It is impacting our third quarter wholesale, but I’m very optimistic,” Ford CEO Jim Farley told reporters Wednesday on the sidelines of a company event in Detroit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

She didn’t start out with these wholesale fictions.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

According to the Bryn Walker web page, the brand operates six company-owned stores “and wholesales to around a thousand boutiques nationwide.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

Production, exports and wholesales of passenger cars in China all hit fresh highs in November compared with the same month in prior years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025

Industries such as transportation and wholesales showed double-digit falls in special payments, the data showed.

From Reuters ● Jan. 5, 2023

Consumers have faced sharply higher prices for goods and services this year as businesses deal with an unprecedented jump in wholesales prices.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2021

It would be to the interest of rural societies to deal with co-operative wholesales just as much as it is in the interest of urban stores to do so.

From The National Being Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity by George William Russell

That’s not the narrative being wholesaled by the financial press and investment pundits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2022

“In a normal situation, there’s some surplus that gets generated when you’re farming,” he said, explaining that the surplus would be wholesaled to other retailers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2021

He has brokered real estate deals in Florida, arranged bank loans in Venezuela, marketed industrial pumps in Thailand, wholesaled shoes in Panama, promoted a building-materials company to Mexican interests and advised transnational financial services firms.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 2015

After that, I started a company that wholesaled mobile phones.

From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2011

Marketing: In our large apple-growing districts the crop is generally wholesaled, either in the orchard or subject to delivery at the railroad, generally in barrels.

From The Apple by Various

Margins for machinery and equipment wholesaling rose 3.5% month over month in April.

From Barron's ● May 13, 2026

Jefferies also expects Sigma to make improvements in its wholesaling business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

After the public sector, the wholesaling, retailing, hotels and restaurants sector showed the strongest regular annual growth rate.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2025

By the 1930s, the Mayers had expanded into jewelry wholesaling and made more than 100 street clocks for customers in multiple states, said Mendez.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2024

They called it railroading, high finance, banking, wholesaling, real estate, and such things, but the point was that they got it, while she got what was left,—twenty-two cents.

From Burning Daylight by Jack London




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