For many of the owners, traveling to distant wholesale markets to buy goods poses a challenge.
It's now possible to buy goods online in two steps by tweeting a special hashtag.
An importer would buy goods without VAT because they came from another European Union country.
While some have been detected before a transaction has taken place, others have been used to buy goods.
Customers flocking to corner-shops typically buy goods they need for a limited period and for a limited value.
Chinese companies often use credit cards rather than cheques or wire transfers to buy goods and services from each other.
In tough times they still have the cash to buy goods, while others stay home or go way down-market.
Value added tax (VAT) is paid whenever you buy goods or a service.
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Others buy goods in neighbouring countries where traders have smuggled them in from Congo and have arranged dodgy paperwork to make the deals look legal.
Facebook members can buy goods on Facebook, find deals tailored for a particular time or place, and use virtual currency to pay for games and apps.
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Foreigners have bid up the CNH, giving Chinese importers an incentive to park their money in Hong Kong and use CNH to buy goods from abroad.
It might meet part of its obligations, including public-sector wages, by issuing small-denomination IOUs that could in turn be used to buy goods and pay bills.
According to a couple of studies Chinese consumers are reluctant to buy goods from Japan or the United States, believing that Chinese-made goods are better.
"Worries about online privacy are one of the most frequent reasons for why people don't buy goods and services on the Web, " Reding wrote in February.
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That would help to signal which items are hardest to get rid of, giving consumers an incentive to buy goods that create less waste in the first place.
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Lack of bank notes stifles what little trade there might be, and forces people to spend several hours a day hunting for ways to settle bills and buy goods.
Studies show that Mercosur's high external tariffs cause Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay to import from one another even when it would be more efficient to buy goods elsewhere.
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The couple were dumped in the nearby city of Itaborai after being forced to use their credit cards to buy goods and withdraw money from cash machines, the police report says.
Consumers wanting to buy goods by mail order may be unable to pay by cheque because the seller will be unwilling to accept a payment that carries a levy of nearly 25%.
With customs officers on hand 24 hours a day, the time needed to buy goods in Greece, or take delivery of containers arriving by train from the port of Salonika, should be slashed.
This does not mean that free trade is not worth having: Eastern Europeans have clearly benefited hugely from being able to buy goods from the West, rather than from the former Soviet Union.
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"If Wal-Mart goes to China to buy goods, it goes to Africa to sell goods, and that's a problem, " says Mkandawire, who is the former director of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development.
They foresee a sharp slowdown in the housing market, which has underpinned much recent consumer spending as people refinance their mortgages to benefit from lower interest rates and use some of the equity to buy goods.
If a card belonging to a Berliner has never been used to purchase a plane ticket or buy goods outside Germany, the system may block an attempt to book a Moscow-Tokyo flight leaving in three hours.
In comparison, Dr Nairn said that parents in Spain and Sweden seemed to find it easier to refuse to buy goods for their children - and that there seemed to be much less pressure to have particular brands.
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