wholesale
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Nike falls after Bank of America downgrades the stock on concerns about innovation, wholesale revenue, and softening demand.
From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026
The projected 2026 wholesale price on a frozen whole hen climbed to over $1.74 per pound.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
At a petrol station in Willenhall, fuel retailer Shailesh Parekh said rising wholesale costs were affecting both businesses and customers.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Turnover among executives and ownership gave him repeated openings to make wholesale changes, a shift that coincided with California’s drought crisis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
He had one at the store so he could phone orders to the wholesale house in Athens, but he was too stingy to pay for one at home.
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
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
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
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 Theodore Dreiser
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
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
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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