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==History== General dealers were established in the 18th and 19th centuries in many remote populated places where mobility was limited and a single shop was sufficient to service the entire community. Due to its close connection and confinement to its customers, general dealers often adjusted their sales offerings to the specific preferences of their community.<ref name=NSW>{{cite book|title=An historical and statistical account of New South Wales: both as a penal settlement and as a British colony|volume=1|last=Lang|first=John Dunmore|author-link=John Dunmore Lang|publisher=Cochrane and M'Crone|year=1834|pages=236, 237}}</ref> General dealers existed, apart from [[Continental Europe|mainland]] [[Europe]] and [[Asia]], in all European colonies and generally in areas where [[Settler|colonists]] encroached upon communities that previously did not trade with money.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Jewish Community |url=http://newhistory.co.za/part-3-chapter-11-the-white-communities-the-jewish-community/|publisher=News history|access-date=2 December 2011|quote=Through their trading activities these merchant capitalists accelerated the transition from a subsistence to a cash economy.|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120611174204/http://newhistory.co.za/part-3-chapter-11-the-white-communities-the-jewish-community/|archive-date=11 June 2012}}</ref> In the colonies, trading or bartering in local produce had existed long before official shops were opened. The growing need for imported goods, both from European settlers and [[Indigenous peoples|native]] populations, led to the establishment of a network of [[merchant]]s, and subsequently to the creation of a money economy.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Wild|first=V|year=1992|title=An Outline of African Business History in Colonial Zimbabwe|journal=Zambezia|volume=19|issue=1|url=http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/africanjournals/pdfs/Journal%20of%20the%20University%20of%20Zimbabwe/vol19n1/juz019001004.pdf|access-date=9 June 2011}}</ref>
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