Although the wholesale system was once abolished in order to control the distribution of goods during the War, the wholesale market resumed after the war, and it has grown further following the amendment of the Wholesale Market Act in the 1950s and the Wholesale Market Law enacted in 1971.
戦時中には統制のため仲買制度は一度廃止されたが終戦後には復活し1950年代の中央卸売市場法の改正や昭和46年の卸売市場法を経て現在に至っている。