Other settlements include two stations in Westchester County that Schneiderman said marked up the retail price over wholesale by more than 40 percent and a Spring Valley station that marked up the retail price over wholesale by 98 percent.

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But it also contributes to blurring the line between retail and wholesale investors, since it gives small-timers the same price information and market access as huge pension funds.

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The nation's courts, acting on their own, ordered seizure of wholesale stocks and fixed a third price, for retail sugar, at 40 rupees per kilo, which was half the price in neighboring Afghanistan.

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In the wholesale model, bookstores could determine their own prices and margins based on a steady wholesale price of roughly 50 percent of retail.

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