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:
2 used to describe a business that sells products to other businesses in large quantities and at lower prices than usual:
There are other quantities, including wholesale cartons for cash-and-carry sale, discount at discount clubs and warehouses, not simply those in the normal quantities that are available for resale.
This proposal could be particularly damaging for the small businessman who stocks up at the cash-and-carry well in advance and finds himself suddenly breaking the law.
I understand that now, to gain the benefit of the subsidy, many are going to supermarkets and cash-and-carry stores and buying 3 lb.
The bikes were bought from garage forecourts, supermarkets and on a cash-and-carry basis through send-away brochures.
We were originally put on the basis of cash-and-carry, when the war began.
The "cash-and-carry" centres which were opened during the period of emergency will remain open so long as they are required.
Does he believe that a prospective insured person who goes direct to a company and not through an intermediary should get a discount—a cash-and-carry arrangement?
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.