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wholesale meat market
A market supplying meat in large quantities to restaurants and stores for resale to their customers.
A wholesale meat market is a place where large quantities of meat are sold to restaurants and stores for resale to their customers.
The purchasers obtain meat for their commercial food supply. The market need not itself raise animals or perform slaughter.
A wholesale fish market supplies fish or seafood. A retail butcher supplies individual customers, while the wholesale market supplies businesses in bulk.