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broadline
/ ˈbrɔːdˌlaɪn /
noun
- a company that deals in high volume at the cheaper end of a product line
- ( as modifier )
broadline distributors
Example Sentences
Broadline and mass market discount stores may be falling out of favor with BTS shoppers as specialty stores and local shops make a comeback.
Broadline retailers still capture the lion’s share of sales, notes Cardlytics, but their market share is on the decline and dropped as much as 7.6% last year as pending increased in just about every other retail category, accept online, which fell 0.5 percent.
The evidence shows that Sysco and US Foods were strong rivals in broadline food distribution whose combination would have harmed consumers,” Debbie Feinstein, director of the regulator’s Bureau of Competition, said in a statement.
Last Tuesday, Judge Amit P. Mehta of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia granted the FTC’s injunction, stating that the antitrust regulator had shown “a reasonable probability that the proposed merger will substantially impair competition in the national customer and local broadline markets and that the equities weigh in favor of injunctive relief.”
“The F.T.C. has shown that there is a reasonable probability that the proposed merger will substantially impair competition in the national customer and local broadline markets and that the equities weigh in favor of injunctive relief,” he wrote.
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