Foreign merchants of the Hanseatic League had considerable privileges in England trade and competed with the Merchant Adventurers.

Private merchants competed effectively against the cooperatives, and bankruptcies of the latter followed.

During the Christmas season, merchants compete to have shopping tour buses from Milwaukee drop passengers off in front of their stores.

Noble houses, wealthy knights, and merchants competed to put the most splendidly accoutred marchers in the line.

Mass merchants aggressively compete on price during the holidays to lure customers.

Also competing with the Creoles were Lebanese merchants, who began streaming in toward the end of the nineteenth century.

Holding four to six auctions each, five merchants, three of them allied with London auction houses, are competing for pricey consignments and bidders' dollars.

Spanish economic interests were further concerned when Bonaparte, as conditions deteriorated in early 1803, sold Louisiana to the United States, whose merchants competed with those of Spain.

For a time Christian merchants competed with the Jews, who eventually took control of the trade between China and Provence.

From the 16th to 19th centuries the Portuguese and their merchants were just one among many rival groups competing for the local trade in gold, ivory, and slaves.