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Merchants in sentence

107 examples of Merchants in a sentence

And what seems to have happened here is that the Indus traders, the merchants, were using this script to write a foreign language.
And I want to mention that these seals were used for stamping clay tags that were attached to bundles of goods, so it's quite likely that these tags, at least some of them, contain names of merchants.
In fact, in 1848, 82 grain merchants and farmers got together in a small town at the crossroads of the Illinois River and Lake Michigan to establish a way to trade better amongst themselves.
The technology is used by 700 million people to pay each other, not just merchants, so it's peer to peer, and it's almost transaction-fee-free.
[This talk contains mature language Viewer discretion is advised] If we traveled back to the year 800 BC, in Greece, we would see that merchants whose businesses failed were forced to sit in the marketplace with a basket over their heads.
By Chaucer’s time, a professional class of merchants and intellectuals had also emerged.
But when white captains came offering manufactured goods, weapons, and rum for slaves, African kings and merchants had little reason to hesitate.
So Amsterdam was brimming with wealthy, skilled merchants and traders who displayed their prosperity by living in mansions surrounded by flower gardens.
Around the same time as Egyptians were incubating eggs, Phoenician merchants introduced chickens to Europe, where they quickly became an essential part of European livestock.
The merchants who had stalls in the old city market now trade out of sheds on the streets.
One of the kingdom’s most prosperous merchants has been exposed for his corrupt dealings.
This is commerce in Kenya, right along the train tracks, so close to the train tracks that the merchants sometimes have to pull the merchandise out of the way.
They got their rights by destroying innocent Korean merchants.
The world's first writing started in Sumer as a system of accounting, allowing merchants to communicate over long distances with traders abroad.
The merchants liked her embroidery; it sold very well, and they kept asking for more.
Eurasian Victor Poten decides to drive the Chinese merchants from their district in order to start his new race and eliminating any Asians or whites that stand in his way.
The setting takes place in a female prison with disenchanted convicts feeling "exploited" or enslaved by an opportunistic warden who uses their labor to produce clothes for merchants.
This is a "yellow peril" tale of a half Chinese half western woman looking to take over Chinatown by destroying the Chinese merchants.
But Groupon is spreading that model to a much wider audience – not so much to coupon users, but instead to merchants offering coupons.
In fact, Groupon is doing for e-mail marketing what other Internet companies are doing for the Yellow Pages or classified ads: encouraging merchants to use modern technology to reach their customers.
In practice, Groupon’s original idea – to encourage users to form groups to negotiate with merchants – seems to have disappeared.
Thanks to Groupon, merchants may face a similar, but perhaps even more damaging, fate.
They will wait for sales to buy, and merchants will find themselves competing ever more fiercely.
Meanwhile, merchants’ brand power will be eroded as consumers look to Groupon (as they do to Orbitz) rather than to them for the best deals.
The logic is simple: merchants are encouraged to use the deals to attract new customers, who in theory will return at full price.
But, in what seems to be an increasing number of cases, customers come for the deals, and then leave for deals offered by other merchants through Groupon.
Over time, merchants are likely to lower the level of their discounts (they can’t afford to do otherwise).
But Groupon and its ilk will continue to offer an effective way for new merchants to enter the market and attract new customers.
Its sales force is training thousands and perhaps millions of merchants to use e-mail marketing and coupons.
Merchants may well use intermediaries to reach consumers, but they are unlikely to continue to hand such a huge share of the revenues.
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