Examples of merchant in the following topics:
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Other New England merchants took advantage of the rich fishing areas along the Atlantic coast.
- Some merchants exploited the vast amounts of timber along the coasts and rivers of northern New England.
- Hundreds of New England shipwrights built oceangoing ships, which they sold to British and American merchants.
- As in New England, the majority of the elite in the Middle Colonies were merchants.
- Merchants dominated urban society; about 40 merchants controlled half of Philadelphia's trade.
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- Mercantilism meant that the government and merchants based in England became partners with the goal of increasing political power and private wealth, to the exclusion of other empires and even merchants based in its own colonies.
- The government protected its London-based merchants—and kept others out—by trade barriers, regulations, and subsidies to domestic industries in order to maximize exports from and minimize imports to the realm.
- The government had to fight smuggling, especially by American merchants, some of whose activities (which included direct trade with the French, Spanish, Dutch, and Portuguese) were classified as such by the Navigation Acts.
- The government took its share through duties and taxes, with the remainder going to merchants in Britain.
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- Allied merchant shipping, or convoys.
- Merchant ship losses dropped by over two-thirds in July 1941, and the losses remained low until November.
- Further air cover was provided by the introduction of merchant aircraft carriers (MAC ships), and later the growing numbers of American-built escort carriers.
- Over 36,000 Allied sailors, airmen and servicemen and and a similar number of merchant seamen lost their lives.
- Discuss the tonnage war in the Atlantic between Allied merchant ships and the German Navy and Airforce.
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- Early New England Puritan society was characterized by yeoman farming communities and a growing merchant class.
- Some merchants exploited the vast amounts of timber along the coasts and rivers of northern New England.
- Hundreds of New England shipwrights built oceangoing ships, which they sold to British and American merchants.
- A growing class of artisans, shopkeepers, and merchants provided services to the growing farming population.
- Many merchants became very wealthy and came to dominate the society of seaport cities.
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- Within a few years, Dutch and Spanish merchants overwhelmed English merchants in commerce on the Iberian Peninsula, the Mediterranean, and the Levant.
- In some instances, British colonists and foreign merchants subverted the Act; for example, in the West Indies, the Dutch kept up a flourishing "smuggling" trade due to the preference of English planters for Dutch goods and the better deal the Dutch offered in the sugar trade.
- The Acts required all of a colony's imports to be either bought from England or resold by English merchants in England, regardless of what price could be obtained elsewhere.
- Others argue that the political friction caused by the Acts was more serious than the negative economic impact, because the merchants most affected were the most active politically.
- Irritation with stricter enforcement under the Sugar Act of 1764 became a greater source of resentment by merchants in the American colonies against Great Britain, contributing to the American Revolution.
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- 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.
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- Unlike Europe, where aristocratic families and the established church were in control, the American political culture was open to economic, social, religious, ethnic, and geographical interests, with merchants, landlords, petty farmers, artisans, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Quakers, Germans, Scotch Irish, Yankees, Yorkers, and many other identifiable groups taking part.
- The southern region had very few urban places apart from Charleston, where a merchant elite maintained close connections with nearby plantation society.
- Merchants, lawyers, and doctors in Charleston often desired to buy lands and retire as country gentlemen.
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- Merchants dominated seaport society and about 40 merchants controlled half of Philadelphia's trade.
- Wealthy merchants in Philadelphia and New York, like their counterparts in New England, built elegant Georgian-style mansions.
- Hundreds of seamen, some who were African American, worked as sailors on merchant ships.