Big purchasers get better pricing because when you buy in bulk you can negotiate a better price.
Think of it this way: Consolidators are wholesalers (much like Costco) who buy in bulk.
The kiranas should gang up into co-operatives so that they can buy in bulk from suppliers.
The proposals involve sharing procurements such as fire engines as it is cheaper to buy in bulk.
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It departments know exactly the machines they want, buy in bulk and replace old Dells with new Dells.
Apart from the typical consumer, Costco generates a healthy portion of sales from businesses that buy in bulk.
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There are high chairs to be set up, electrical outlets to safety proof, and formula to buy in bulk.
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Because fleet customers buy in bulk, they tend to pay less than showroom buyers, and that means carmakers earn less profit on those sales.
Corporate customers fit Dell perfectly. it departments tend to know exactly the machines they want, buy in bulk and replace old Dells with new Dells.
Those who need frequent shopping trips to avoid spoilage and because they have less money at any one particular time rather than infrequent shopping trips to buy in bulk suffer the consequences.
And Sony, we assume, can buy in bulk.
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Although every neighborhood has its own shopping - including hometown newspapers, groceries and delicacies - if you want to buy in bulk, head east (in your car) to Chinatown, located in downtown Los Angeles, which offers the best knickknacks, bags, jewelry and crafts at discount prices.
Schiltz says Symform has received numerous unsolicited calls from application developers who want to buy storage in bulk, which would put the company in direct competition with Amazon S3.
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Bank of America ( BAC - news - people ) aims its bank- card pitch at employers who buy them in bulk as staff gifts. (BofA declined to comment on whether employers receive a discount rate for buying scads of cards at a time.) There's no dormancy fee with BofA's product, but after nine months the cards become worthless, whatever the remaining balance is.
Join Amway, buy the stuff in bulk, and deduct it on Schedule C as a business expense.
But some fear it could lead to people going to neighbouring counties to buy cheap alcohol in bulk.
Companies that buy prescription drugs in bulk would sell cards to Medicare patients.
Its flexible durability aside, the cells currently operate at only one percent efficiency -- so you might want to buy those drapes in bulk to see a real bottom line kickback.
British police believe that McCormick paid off officials to buy the ADE 651 in bulk.
Mexican immigrants running flea markets in the area routinely roll up their trucks to buy up clothes, furniture, gadgets and other items in bulk.
Leaving the warm Virginia sunshine outside and walking into the bulk-buy Costco store in Pentagon City, it's easy to spot the Christmas aisles.
Chasen's barter idea: Buy discounted magazine and newspaper ad pages in bulk and trade them to restaurants for dining credits, which would then be sold to diners for cash.
Kurt DelBene, president of the Microsoft Office Division, said in an interview with Forbes that he thinks that within 10 years, the bulk of Office users will buy the software via a subscription, rather in the traditional shrink-wrapped format.
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Customers who sign up can bulk buy their heating oil and electricity together in a package.
It is much easier for big western companies to deal with large agri-businesses, to which they can sell fertilisers and equipment in bulk, and from which they can buy vast quantities of grain, sugar beet and sunflower seed.
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