wholesaler

plural wholesalers

1. A person or company that buys merchandise from manufacturers, importers, or distributors and resells the merchandise to retail businesses and to business and institutional end users.

   Now it seems parent company Anheuser-Busch is taking steps to help wholesalers who have taken a hit.

   2023 May 22, Brian Flood, “Bud Light buying back unsold, expired beer from wholesalers as sales continue to suffer: report”, in Fox News

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   He observed that a wholesaler who supplied my grandfather with goods continued to advertise the implements of a new game, called "Sphairistike."

   1941, Sir Arnold Henry Moore Lunn, Come what may: an autobiography, Little, Brown and company, page 7

   Your market gardener is not a well-breeched man, dependant as he is on the imponderables of glut, the inequities of distribution, and the greeds of wholesaler and retailer.

   1954, Thomas Firbank, Log Hut, page 194

   Among wholesalers, voluntary and cooperatives carry a far wider range and number of items in private brands than do unaffiliateds.

   1968, Progressive Grocer's Marketing Guidebook, page 13

   The packinghouse usually delivers shrimp to a few regular customers, such as breaders, freezers, canners, or wholesalers of fresh shrimp.

   1976, USITC Publication - Issue 773, page A-33

   Do it Best is a member-owned wholesaler that sells hardware, lumber and other home goods to independent stores.

   2024 October 14, Jordan Valinsky, “True Value declares bankruptcy and sells itself to a hardware rival”, in CNN