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"Services grew a little, with wholesaling, pubs and restaurants and IT companies all doing well, partially offset by falls in accountancy and business rental & leasing," she added.

Trade and investment from China have not brought about wholesale change the way that these places thought it would.

Put simply, people like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are at the leading edge of a wholesale recalibration of the industry.

There was Leland Stanford, who was once a wholesale grocer in Sacramento and later became governor and founded a university bearing his name.

If there was a short-term spike in wholesale prices, this could affect some business customers, he said.