Wholesale - Grated Cucumber

Japanese: 卸売 - おろしうり

This refers to sales between businesses that purchase goods in large lots from producers and sell them to retailers or industrial users. They may also act as wholesalers, agents, and middlemen. They generally specialize by the type of product they handle, which makes it easier to adjust the quantity and quality at the product distribution stage and contributes to reducing social distribution costs. However, in recent years, as consumers' shopping trends have shifted to large, wide-area stores that carry everything, the number of industry-specific retailers is also decreasing. As a result, wholesalers are also changing to a system that can handle orders from large stores, and their numbers are also on the decline. Distribution methods that do not go through wholesalers are also increasing.

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Japanese:

生産者から大量荷口で商品を買い付け，これを小売商や産業需要者に売り付ける業者間販売のこと。問屋，代理商，仲立人の業務を兼ねることもある。一般に取扱品目別に専門化しており，商品流通段階での数量や品質の調節を容易にし，社会的配給費の節減に寄与する。しかし，近年は消費者の買物傾向が何でも揃う広域大型店へ移行しているため，業種別小売店も減少しつつある。そのため，卸売商も大型店の注文に対応できる体制に変わりつつあり，その数も減少傾向にある。また，卸売商を通さない流通方式も増加している。

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