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wholesale

sale of goods or merchandise to retailers or other wholesalers rather than end consumers
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wholesale

Summary

wholesale is an industry[1]. wholesale draws 677 Wikipedia views per month (industry category, ranking #28 of 199).[2]

Key Facts

  • wholesale's instance of is recorded as industry[3].
  • wholesale's instance of is recorded as business model[4].
  • wholesale is a type of trade[5].
  • wholesale is a type of business-to-business[6].
  • wholesale is part of tertiary sector of the economy[7].
  • wholesale's Commons category is recorded as Wholesale trade[8].
  • wholesale's said to be the same as is recorded as wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles[9].
  • wholesale is the opposite of retail[10].
  • wholesale's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Wholesaling[11].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include industry[3] and business model[4]. Recorded subclass of include trade[5] and business-to-business[6]. wholesale is the opposite of retail[10].

Use and Application

wholesale is part of tertiary sector of the economy[7].

Why It Matters

wholesale draws 677 Wikipedia views per month (industry category, ranking #28 of 199).[2] wholesale has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] wholesale is known by 39 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . roiw.org. roiw.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_wholesale_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{wholesale}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/wholesale}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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  1. 2d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → industry, business model
    Opposite of → retail
    Part of → tertiary sector of the economy
    Eurovoc id → 6
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-update:1||2 */ [[Property:P2347]], mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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