Editing Merchant (section)

==Types of merchants==
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Broadly, merchants can be classified into two categories:

* A wholesale merchant operates in the chain between the producer and retail merchant, typically dealing in large quantities of goods.<ref>Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, 2013. [http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/merchant mer‧chant]</ref> In other words, a wholesaler does not sell directly to end-users. Some wholesale merchants only organize the movement of goods rather than move the goods themselves.
* A retail merchant or retailer sells merchandise to end-users or consumers (including businesses), usually in small quantities. A shop-keeper is an example of a retail merchant.

However, the term 'merchant' is often used in a variety of specialised contexts such as in ''merchant banker'', ''merchant navy'' or ''[[merchant services]]''.