Sales. June 2008 sales of merchant wholesalers, except manufacturers’sales branches and offices, after adjustment for seasonal variations and trading-day differences but not for price changes, were $411.2 billion, up 2.8 percent from the revised May level and were up 17 percent from June 2007. The May preliminary estimate was revised upward $2.4 billion or 0.6 percent. June sales of durable goods were up 1.3 percent from last month and were up 9 percent from a year ago. Compared to last month, sales of computer and computer peripheral equipment and software were up 3.4 percent and sales of lumber and other construction materials were up 1.9 percent. Sales of nondurable goods were up 4.1 percent from last month and were up 24.3 percent from last year. Sales of …