Wholesale

Sunday afternoon we decided to check out the local wholesale market,
located on the other side of the Dalian train station. It is a massive
complex jostling with people moving stuff on dollies, bringing in new
merch. The sellers are not hawking their goods, as you might imagine. I
suppose since it's a wholesale area, the people operating the shops can
be considered "suppliers" that take a more subdued middle-man attitude
than a shopkeeper who deals with the end-customer. We walked around
quite a bit, but after a couple of hours we still only saw a small
fraction of what is available: fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, booze,
meats, seafood, car seat covers, pots n' pans, batteries, kitchen
gadgets, beads, jewelry, stationary, clothes, clocks, telephones,
crochet kits, oil paintings, toiletries, and on and on. At the end of
the day, we didn't end up buying anything except for a bottle of mineral
water to quench our thirst after a long, but very interesting afternoon.