wholesale markets
Trade-only selling venues
Wholesale markets are venues where goods are sold in large quantities, typically to retailers, distributors, or other businesses rather than individual consumers.
Prices are lower per unit than retail because buyers purchase in bulk.
The term covers physical locations—produce terminals, commodity exchanges, trade centers—and abstract systems: The wholesale market for semiconductors tightened last quarter.
Wholesale markets sit between producers and the retail outlets where consumers eventually buy.
- wholesalersBulk goods merchants
- distributorsEntities that supply retailers
- suppliersThose who furnish goods
- early morningFirst hours of day
- cash-and-carryPay upfront, transport yourself
retailers · food hall · fresh produce · supply chain · distribution centers · loading dock · bulk purchasing · minimum order · buying power · economies of scale · spot price · auction · floor trader · brokers · inventory management · warehousing · importers · dairy products
- fishing industrycommercial fishing, fishing fleet, fishing vessels, fishing ports, fishing port
- fisheriescommercial fishing, fishing boats, fisheries, fishing nets, fishing fleets
- Banana TradeDole, Del Monte, organic bananas, plantains, banana plantations
- Islamic commerceIslamic finance, Islamic banking, dinar, dirham, business transactions
- agriculturefarms, crops, farm, farmers, farming
- fruitapple, apples, banana, bananas, orange
wholesale marketsretail markets
Stores selling to consumers
retail stores · consumer markets · retail outlets · retail shops · shops