| The largest growing business opportunities today | | | | course you must prove it by showing your |
| is the sales that transpires from one business to | | | | licenses. The wholesale clubs cannot charge you |
| another business. We call this the | | | | taxes on your products because you must pass |
| "Business-to-Business" sales field as the business | | | | that on to the consumers. This was a great idea |
| who is selling products only sales to other | | | | from the onset but places like Sam's Club soon |
| businesses not to private citizens. This is the way | | | | drove others from the market place. Many cities |
| that "Business-to-Business sales first started and | | | | started to complain as Sam's Clubs moved into |
| this type of sales was referred to as wholesale. | | | | their areas putting the smaller business out of |
| Wholesale business became popular when larger | | | | business. |
| business owners needed a place to pick up | | | | People realized that they could buy products at a |
| products for resale for their local customers. The | | | | wholesale price by becoming a member and since |
| wholesale business would buy up products cheap | | | | the membership fee was so small for the year |
| from the market and resale to local business | | | | found that the savings far outweighed the cost. |
| owners at a discounted rate so that they could | | | | Then of course since many people prefer not to |
| resale making money. Everyone seems to profit | | | | buy in bulk the idea of opening up a retail chain |
| from this type of business and the consumer | | | | store next to the club only seemed a natural |
| foot the bill. | | | | course of events. The birth of Wal-mart stores |
| A man by the name of Sam Walton decided to | | | | across the nation happened overnight making it |
| make a difference for the smaller business owner | | | | impossible for the small business person to remain |
| and the general public by opening up wholesale | | | | in business. This did not seem to affect the |
| products to everyone by starting what is called a | | | | buying power of the average citizen who |
| "club." The club as he referred to it gave the small | | | | preferred the larger chain stores and clubs to the |
| business owner the right to get his products | | | | small town business. There still remains a multitude |
| cheaper and the average citizen the chance to | | | | of small business owners today in every town |
| buy in bulk if they wanted. The name of this | | | | and city in America and most of them buy their |
| wholesale resale was dubbed Sam's Club. This idea | | | | products from places like the club at a wholesale |
| caught on and soon others decided to do the | | | | price The two have eventually learned how to live |
| same thing soon there was the opening of Price | | | | successfully together side by side in doing |
| Costco another wholesale club. You have to be a | | | | "Business-to-Business sales. |
| business owner in order to buy products and of | | | | |