wholesale
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"There has to be a wholesale resentencing attempt, I think, and really that does need thinking through."
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Sector-wise, retail trade lost 19,000 jobs, with employment declining in warehouse retailers -- firms like Costco, Sam's Club and others that offer discounts for wholesale quantities of household goods -- and general merchandise stores.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
They said the wholesale prices on some incoming merchandise were lower than they were during the tariff period and therefore customers would pay less.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
That, along with vast wholesale purchasing power, allowed lower prices for customers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
She knew this would make them start pestering their mamas as to when Miss Love would be back and when would the wholesale house ship the orders.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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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
To some extent, the board split reflected different levels of dependence on the imported supplies that Metropolitan wholesales to the Southland.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2018
A bottle of Miraval 2015 rosé that wholesales for less than $18 is on the wine list at $67.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2017
Narrow board walks extended out, passing here a house, and there a store at far intervals, portion was the vast wholesales and shopping district, to which the uninformed seeker for work usually drifted.
From Sister Carrie by Dreiser, Theodore
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
Equipment wholesaling and transportation logistics are service industries that saw big jumps in the April data, a sign that higher oil prices are transitioning into a “second-order effect,” Helfstein says.
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
"Services grew a little, with wholesaling, pubs and restaurants and IT companies all doing well, partially offset by falls in accountancy and business rental & leasing," she added.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2025
Born in 1852, Bruun began to collect coins as a boy in the 1850s and ’60s, years before he began to amass vast riches in the packing and wholesaling of butter.
From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2024
Remember, you are wholesaling your "jokes" to the comedians, who must retail them to their audiences.
From Writing for Vaudeville by Page, Brett
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