#merchants

I represent a rural state and live in a small town. Small merchants make up the majority of Vermont's small businesses and thread our state together. It is the mom-and-pop grocers, farm-supply stores, coffee shops, bookstores and barber shops where Vermonters connect, conduct business and check in on one another. ↗

— Peter Welch

#barber #bookstores #business #businesses #check

Swipe fees have increased steadily since the introduction of debit cards 20 years ago, when there were no swipe fees at all. Merchants can't negotiate or control them. They've tried, but they have no leverage against the big banks and issuers. So they get ignored. ↗

— Peter Welch

#ago #banks #big #cards #control

The Merchants of Carolina, are fair, frank Traders. ↗

— John Lawson

#fair #frank #merchants #traders

The popularity of Groupon has almost rendered the group-buying element of it obsolete, because we're able to deliver so many customers that the merchants are very happy with even the smallest number that we can provide. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#almost #because #customers #deliver #element

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#constitute #country #does #draw #gains

The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Carolina, as well as the West Indies; but as for the rest of this continent, they were constant losers in trade. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#carolina #constant #continent #indeed #indies

To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants. ↗

— Peter Stuyvesant

#company #greatest #her #merchants #profit

Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to guarantee the debts of other institutions, including merchants, the industries, and the mills of the country? ↗

— Carter Glass

#american people #any #banks #country #debts

Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these struggles have given rise have produced that problem which is even now apparently far from solution. ↗

— John Moody

#difficulties #even #even now #far #farmers