merchant wholesaler

(noun)

an entity that purchases products, takes title of them, and then sells them (generally to retailers, other wholesalers, and industrial consumers)

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Examples of merchant wholesaler in the following topics:

  • Merchant Wholesalers

    • Wholesale merchants, agents, and brokers help move goods between producers and retailers.
    • Wholesale merchants, agents, and brokers are essential elements of the wholesale business.
    • A wholesale merchant operates in the chain between the producer and the retail merchant.
    • Some wholesale merchants only organize the movement of goods rather than move the goods themselves.
    • Limited service merchant wholesalers take title to the merchandise and assume the risk involved in an independent operation.

  • Credit Cards

    • Merchants are charged several fees for accepting credit cards.
    • The merchant may also pay a variable charge, called an interchange rate, for each transaction.
    • Merchants are also required to lease processing terminals, meaning merchants with low sales volumes may have to commit to long lease terms.
    • For some terminals, merchants may need to subscribe to a separate telephone line.
    • Finally, merchants assume the risk of chargebacks by consumers.

  • Two basic relationship types

    • This particular buyer uses a wholesaler to purchase all necessary items.
    • This wholesaler has no desire to establish a partnership with the school; it merely wishes to sell as many items as possible.
    • However, if the vendor begins to have poor service or inflated prices, the purchaser will simply choose a comparable wholesaler with little anxiety.

  • Mall Kiosks

    • A retail kiosk (or mall kiosk) is a store operated out of a merchant supplied kiosk.
    • A retail kiosk (or mall kiosk) is a store operated out of a merchant supplied kiosk.

  • Inventory Management

    • The firm's work in process includes those materials from the time of release to the work floor until they become complete and ready for sale to wholesale or retail customers.
    • Its finished good inventory consists of all the filled and labeled cans of food in its warehouse that it has manufactured and wishes to sell to food distributors (wholesalers), to grocery stores (retailers), and even perhaps to consumers through arrangements like factory stores and outlet centers.
    • Manufacturers', distributors', and wholesalers' inventory tends to cluster in warehouses.

  • Shipping and Transportation

    • An individual nation's fleet, and the people that crew it, are referred to as its merchant navy or merchant marine.
    • Merchant shipping is lifeblood to the world economy, carrying 90% of international trade with 102,194 commercial ships worldwide.

  • Getting over the hurdle

    • For example, a sizeable number of agricultural producers have discovered that by working together they can purchase and share expensive planting and harvesting equipment, decide which crops should be farmed, work to reduce water usage, and even set a fixed price for wholesalers.

  • Causes of the bullwhip effect and counteracting the bullwhip effect

    • Stabilize prices by replacing sales and discounts with consistent "every-day low prices" at the consumer stage and uniform wholesale pricing at upstream stages.

  • Special topic: supply chain management

    • In the manufacturing sector, supply chain management addresses the movement of goods through the supply chain from the supplier to the manufacturer, to wholesalers or warehouse distribution centers, to retailers and finally to the consumer.

  • Business norms and religious beliefs

    • In France, wholesalers do not like to promote products.