Quotes about Wholesale

You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.

Brock Chisholm

There is no evidence in the record that if they had the best management, it would have made any difference (in the prices they paid for wholesale power).

Nancy Becker

Wholesale used vehicle prices rose 3.2 percent sequentially and 5.3 percent on a year-over-year basis in March.

Tom Kontos

With this merger, El Paso Energy will become the only company that is one of the top five companies in every sector of the wholesale natural gas and power arena, including natural gas transmission, production, gathering and processing, marketing, and power generation.

William Wise

Anytime you lose anything it's bad because, right now, you don't know how much. We feel like we'll have plenty of peaches, but we will just cut back on some of the wholesale.

Aaron Edwards

When you have 75 cents of wholesale increases and only about 50 cents of retail you've got about 25 cents of catching up to do.

Tom Kloza

The main negative is pressure on margins due to increased wholesale traffic and call prices coming down.

James Ross

When you're liquidating something, you're getting pennies on the dollar. When you're selling through a trade exchange, you get the full wholesale or retail rate. So you get top-dollar ? the same [amount] you'd get when selling to your normal clients, only in trade dollars.

Bob Meyer

They have a lot of kids back, so you would figure there wouldn't be wholesale changes. But we don't know that.

Paul Troth

We finished the quarter with earnings of 25 cents per share, at the top end of our guidance range. Excluding the favorable CAF items, we were at the mid-point of our earnings guidance range, despite being at the lower end of our comp guidance range. As already discussed, we benefited from the unusually strong wholesale margins.

Austin Ligon

We are very pleased with our double-digit retail and wholesale sales growth and continuing strong margin improvement in these businesses.

Roger Farah

We shot better and didn't turn the ball over. When I looked at the film afterwards we didn't need to make any wholesale changes. We just needed to do the little things right, which we didn't do up there.

Karl Tait

To assure that there is full disclosure of every aspect of the refining and distribution process for wholesale fuel.

Lincoln Chafee

Throughout 2002 and 2003, for a variety of reasons, used vehicle wholesale values were below what their long-term relationship to what the same vehicles sold for new should be.

Tom Webb

I think the wholesale repeal of what's already been decided is unlikely.

Sang Lee

The reality is that baby boomers are turning senior citizens and not only is it inhumane, but the system will go broke. There needs to be wholesale change.

Tom Suozzi

The company's excellent financial performance, including 16 consecutive quarters of revenue and profit growth, and the successful expansion of its retail and wholesale businesses, has not been reflected in our recent stock price performance.

Charles Koppelman

Most of these companies went into wholesale, and made heavy investments, because of the tax incentive. It appears completely unfair that the charge be levied retroactively now.

Paulo Pedrosa

You're seeing a wholesale shift around TV content from cable to broadband.

Kaan Yigit

Next week, when things have calmed down again, we'll see prices fall due to falling wholesale prices.

Ray Holloway

It gives us a route to market for our brands that really is stronger than we would be able to develop on our own, even with the addition of the new brands. Scale does matter in this business. It matters in terms of your costs to get to market. But it also matters in terms of how you influence your wholesale and retail partners out in the marketplace.

Tom Flocco

The sheer magnitude and frequency of wholesale price rallies are such that absorbing these increased costs to protect market share is simply not a commercially viable option.

Andrew Hill

Both the wholesale and retail environment for consumer electronics is very tough, ... This is a brutal, competitive, low-margin business. Industry sales are struggling to grow because it's a saturated market with too many products.

Sean Wargo

The whole business of wholesale power has changed. Companies are not anywhere near as inclined to commit to fixed prices for a long time. They know (the market) is volatile. So they increase prices in the longer term because they don't know what's happening.

Dave Woglom

Recalling some of the most spectacular horrors of history -- the burning of heretics and witches at the stake, the wholesale massacre of "heathens," and other no less repulsive manifestations of Christian civilization in Europe and elsewhere -- modern man is filled with pride in the "progress" accomplished, in one line at least, since the end of the dark ages of religious fanaticism.

Savitri Devi

The euro will go still lower, but we are unlikely to see a repeat of the wholesale sell-off that occurred last week.

David Solin

It is not a wholesale solution, but an important part of what is required.

Bill Day

There was continuing strength in mining, equipment manufacturing, nonresidential construction and utilities, ... Against that, residential construction, parts of agriculture and both wholesale and retail report poor and falling business conditions.

Alan Oster

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Mark Twain

Engaging in religious bigotry on a wholesale scale is not helpful to the Air Force. So there must be something else in the balance that they feel is worth clutching.

Melinda Morton

You always hear criticism that when wholesale prices come down there always seems to be a delay when the retailer follows suit.

Gregg Laskoski

Terry Garvin and I did whatever we had to do to make the Amarillo promotion a financial success. We wore many different hats. Concession is a big part of the income that keeps a promotion going, so Terry would get huge bags of popcorn, 2-liter bottles of soft drinks, and bags of ice, at wholesale prices, and the promotion would sell them.

Jj Dillon

Broadband growth continues to be very strong with the number of BT Wholesale connections now standing at more than seven million. This is pushing the UK to the front of Europe in broadband take-up.

Ben Verwaayen

There were expectations that wholesale prices would go through the roof, but that hasn't happened yet.

Jonathan Smith

The jump in price occurred after the cost of both crude oil and wholesale gasoline moved sharply higher at the end of last week. Crude oil briefly traded above $63 per barrel and whole sale gasoline was up as much as 15 cents per gallon.

Dawn Duffy

We obviously have had a reduction in the ability to produce gasoline. And the market is at work. You can see it at wholesale, (and) you can see it in retail.

Ron Planting

Basically what is happening is the industry is trying to stop a run on wholesale gasoline by gas stations, ... The gas station owners don't want to under price the market and possibly run out of gasoline.

Geoff Sundstrom

We are moving fast to the wholesale export of ethanol. ... We're investing in infrastructure in Brazil to make it easier to export in large quantities.

Jose Gabrielli

We don't have any plans at the moment to do a wholesale removal of numbers on old forms.

John Heine

It's the smallest increase we've ever done, and it's strictly to cover our wholesale (programming) expenses. Some customers will see their bills go down, depending on the package they're subscribed to.

Sara Brady

We have adopted a more positive stance in retail and wholesale banking following strong cost containment in 2006.

Nicholas Byrne

These changes follow massive increases in the cost of wholesale gas, which has trebled in price since 2003.

Kevin Miles

You know, you always learn more in a bear market about what the new leaders are going to be than you will in a bull market. And in the most recent declines, certain segments within technology have held up very well and have shown excellent relative strength. This means that, basically, these stocks are not being dumped on a wholesale basis - they're actually being accumulated.

Dan Veru

Winter is not over and we still have a national energy problem to solve, but the wholesale cost of natural gas is trending down slightly and we are passing those savings along to customers. These lower prices, although still high by historical standards, should be welcome news to customers who have been challenged to pay this winter despite warmer weather.

Vectren Chairman

This is one of the most negative outlooks in the wholesale and retail sector since the first quarter of 2004. They're going to be very cautious.

Jeff Joerres

[Gas prices, which hit a national average of $2.61 a gallon this week, are affecting sales of large pickups and SUVs] around the margins, ... We're not really seeing a wholesale change in buying patterns.

Deborah Silverman

Something that's attractive for one customer could be a recipe for disaster for another. It comes down to what you envision for your customer. Just adopting wholesale what other retailers do is not going to do it.

Janet Murphy

Whether there are any patterns in wholesale or retail gas prices not explained by crude oil prices and other relevant factors.

The Foundation

The need for utilities to pass on rising wholesale prices to their customers is very much an inevitability. Absorbing these increased costs to protect market share is simply not a commercially viable option.

Andrew Hill

We are able to lower the gas cost significantly because wholesale prices have been coming down.

Alicia Dixon

Combining the data on construction spending, manufacturing inventories, capital goods shipments, and wholesale inventories released since the GDP report, we now see fourth quarter GDP being revised up to 1.5 percent from the advance estimate of 1.1 percent.

Ted Wieseman

There is not 17 cents a gallon to be taken out of the wholesale margins. It's just not there.

Richard Parry

It shows what we have been saying -- [AT&T and MCI] are not insignificant players, ... They cause everybody's [wholesale] bids to be lower.

Tom Cohen

We made wholesale changes. A whole new coaching staff. It's a fresh start for pretty much everyone. We had to get younger. We lost Sam and Spree. They were great players, all stars in this league, so we have to find a way to make up for those guys. I think we're going to do it with hard work and playing our roles.

Wally Szczerbiak

I'm excited to make this announcement as it's a perfect fit for Central Pacific Mortgage. The retail and wholesale divisions' operations and philosophies are almost identical to our organization. It's like a hand fitting into a glove.

John Courson

It appears our least expensive source of wholesale energy is based on the most expensive KCPL generating unit operating, ... As bad as that is, it is better than paying market rates.

Paul Jensen

We believe that the wholesale power market is broken. Out- of-state generators are charging us outrageous prices. We don't make a profit on the power we buy from out-of-state generators. We are basically paying out 15, 18, 40 cents a kilowatt hour and we're only allowed to collect about a nickel from our customers.

Chris Warner

It's the nursery industry that is really flourishing on the Treasure Coast. I'm starting to see more and more wholesale nurseries come up this way.

Ed Skvarch