Customer buys the product from you, you use their money to buy the product from the supplier, and the supplier ships out the product to the customer.

These include employee training and wages, consultant fees, advertising, and travel costs associated with finding suppliers, distributors, and customers."

The Cleveland Clinic has become the #1 job supplier in the area, and that has spawned many more industries, including biomedical technologies, to move into the NE Ohio region.  

There are those who are permanent and almost like family and those who are are suppliers. 

If it is a mostly cash business, maybe review and cross-reference the supplier/distributor invoices they have to see how much they are purchasing (this does not guarantee that it is actually being sold at the store though).

Keep shopping - I would suggest calling a local roofing supplier and get some referrals from them.

He also works with a granite supplier if you are going with that for kitchen counters. 

My uncle was in an even worse position, as a small business owner, he couldn't pay his suppliers or his bills.These are not political people who participated in the previous political corruption that had put Greece into this position.

An easy way to have your contractors price materials for a project is to give you a retail $$ allowance for the item you can choose from one of their preferred suppliers or any where else you want to find it.

Prices have gone up for Harry where the supplier/dealer is actually trying to cash in on the credit, raise the price then offer the credit, not leaving much room for the contractor/developer.But if you talk quanity for ten homes, then there would be a savings.