direct selling
Britishnoun
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The company calculated what it stood to gain through direct selling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026
The company said in its bankruptcy filing that direct selling still drove more than 90 percent of its sales in 2023, with about 465,000 sellers, mostly women, comprising the Tupperware sales force.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2024
The retailer has already announced that its original direct selling network, The Body Shop at Home, which operated for 30 years, will close this month.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2024
The bribes were intended to help Los Angeles-based Herbalife obtain direct selling licenses, reduce government scrutiny of its Chinese operations, and suppress negative coverage by state-controlled media, authorities said.
From Reuters ● Nov. 14, 2019
No more canvassing with a pump undignifiedly on my back, no more manual labor; no, bold as the thought was, not even any more direct selling for me.
From Greener Than You Think by Ward Moore
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