merchandise

merchandise

slang Illicit contraband, especially drugs, being sold, bought, or smuggled. Make sure you don't use any of the merchandise for yourself—if there's any missing by the time you deliver it to Detroit, the boss will cut your ear off. We've got a whole truck full of merchandise coming in tomorrow night.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

merchandise

n. any contraband. (Underworld.) How much of the merchandise can you deliver by midnight?
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • courier
  • use
  • traffic in
  • traffic in (something)
  • hole-and-corner
  • hole-in-the-corner
  • stolen fruit is (the) sweetest
  • stolen fruit is sweet
  • stolen fruit is sweetest
  • stolen pleasures are (the) sweetest
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Global Department Stores & Other General Merchandise Stores Market, 2014 - 2022, Historic And Forecast, By Region
* Free shipping for general book orders; $2.50 + $1 per item for textbooks; $3-$7 for apparel and general merchandise, based on order
The use of even basic visual merchandise techniques offers gun shops and other specialty outdoors retail centers an opportunity to increase sales by using the magic that the proper use of light, color, and even sound bring to displays.
If both imported merchandise and domestic merchandise of the same kind and quality are used to manufacture articles, some of which is exported or destroyed before use, drawback not to exceed 99% of the duty paid on the imported merchandise is recoverable on the exported or destroyed merchandise.
The company also views the redistribution of returned merchandise and even the refurbishing of shopping carts as part of its overall recycling program.
Remain flexible on hours and on the merchandise offered, as residents and their needs change.
Donnelley helps minimize return shipping costs; Newgistics also can tag and "audit" returned merchandise for accurate forwarding to the right location (back to inventory, to a liquidator, to be destroyed, etc.), which reduces supply chain expenses.
And even though his business card may look humorous -- the logo shows the first three letters of "Falling Merchandise" bent under the weight of squares falling -- his caseload is no laughing matter for Hyman.
Out of necessity, the CFO turned from cut-off fraud to another technique: shipping consignment merchandise and booking it as sales.
Merchants know falling merchandise presents dangerous risks to unwary customers, and courts are holding them accountable.
Children's toys that used to be considered innocuous merchandise are now being targeted by organized theft rings.
In an effort to improve retail distribution operations and better control inventory and costs, Service Merchandise, leading retailer of fine jewelry and home lifestyle products, will deploy Optum SCE series software.
Most also must approve the layout of your cart and how your merchandise is displayed.
Merchandise Trade Value: Import data presented are based on the customs value.
When a rent-to-own store brings in a new piece of merchandise, it multiplies the wholesale price by a set percentage - usually 350 percent to 450 percent - to come up with the total sales price.