1.   Additional increases are expected in the last half of this month and in December, as merchants take advantage of the holiday season to raise prices.

2.   But local merchants are not taking the future for granted.

3.   However, unless merchants take steps, that resource just lies there inert and undeveloped.

4.   International competition was dormant for five years until the St. Albans seed merchant took over.

5.   Some merchants in Brooklyn take issue with that notion.

6.   The computer systems, for example, were so antiquated that he could not get daily tallies of store sales, something other merchants take for granted.

7.   The merchants of death take a holiday.

8.   Web merchants are taking heed.

9.   Consumer groups, meanwhile, complained Monday that Italian merchants were taking advantage of the new money to inflict hidden price hikes.

10.   Merchants have taken to the streets in daily marches since Wednesday.