merchant wholesalers

Wholesalers that buy and resell merchandise on their own account - the population the US Census Bureau's Monthly Wholesale Trade Survey measures.

Its published series cover merchant wholesaler sales, end-of-month inventories and inventories-to-sales ratios by NAICS 42 kind of business.

In this catalog it appears concretely: - Monthly Wholesale Trade Survey (MWTS) - Sales & Inventories (what it publishes) — "national estimates of merchant wholesaler sales, end-of-month inventories and inventories-to-sales ratios by NAICS 42 kind of business".

Conventions decide whether two sources can be joined at all. Buy one side of an analysis that ignores this convention and every reconciliation step — calendar alignment, unit conversion, entity matching — lands on your team instead of the vendor's.

The failure mode is concrete: a source can carry the merchant wholesalers label while differing from what you need on exactly the dimension that matters — national estimates of merchant wholesaler sales, end-of-month inventories and inventories-to-sales ratios by NAICS 42 kind of business. Comparing two sources on that line usually settles the choice faster than any feature matrix.

You rarely have to take a vendor's word for it. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets Datadory catalogs are free to access, and Monthly Wholesale Trade Survey (MWTS) - Sales & Inventories lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.

Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:

1. Read Monthly Wholesale Trade Survey (MWTS) - Sales & Inventories's record on what it publishes — "national estimates of merchant wholesaler sales, end-of-month inventories and inventories-to-sales ratios by NAICS 42 kind of business" — then confirm the delivered artifact matches before you license anything.
2. Pin down update cadence in writing. Across this catalog, 22.6% of 1,744 datasets refresh daily and 64 still arrive only through a manual request form, so ask exactly how fresh each release is.
3. Check whether definitions are verified at all. Field definitions are verified for 1495 of 1,744 datasets (85.7%), and any source you license should meet that bar.
4. Price the delivery route before the license. In this catalog bulk download is the most common access method (725 datasets) ahead of official APIs (574), and 379 sources still require scraping — a maintenance cost that lands on you, not the vendor.

See the term applied to real records: distributors data, food-distributors data.

Adjacent concepts worth reading next: - end-of-month inventories - inventories-to-sales ratio - NAICS 42 - NAICS 42 wholesale trade