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cash-and-carry Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 a large shop where people, usually from another business, can buy large amounts of goods cheaply and take them away immediately
1 a very large store where businesses can buy large quantities of products at lower prices than usual, or the system of buying products in large quantities in this way:
- He worked in a variety of jobs; in a supermarket, a cash-and-carry, and a video shop before deciding to go to university.
- As the market leader in cash and carry, they have pushed sales up by 5%.
2 used to describe a business that sells products to other businesses in large quantities and at lower prices than usual:
- cash-and-carry store/outlet/depot
- cash-and-carry business/chain/operator
- They buy new merchandise every week on a cash-and-carry basis.

In particular, the wholesalers are not working on a cash-and-carry basis, which would have them assume coordination risk.
Specifically, wholesalers, working on a cash-and-carry basis, free intermediate-goods producers from coordination risk, at least in so far as the monetary system is stable.
Do they ever refuse gold, because there remains an intermediate-goods-producer coordination problem, despite wholesalers working on a cash-and-carry basis?
We have a special scheme for the growing number of cash-and-carry wholesalers.
Has there been any great delay in the cash-and-carry scheme through this change of proceeding?
Small mixed businesses are applying successfully for off-licences, and there is this vast trade in cash-and-carry from the supermarkets.
It is, indeed, sad to think that this country is being put back on a "cash-and-carry" basis.
At the other end, there is the retailer offering a limited range of what he hopes are fast-moving goods, probably on a self-service cash-and-carry basis.