Store cards are the most popular way to shop in Brazil, allowing customers to pay for goods in regular installments rather than meeting the full price up front.
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They do not like the uncertainty of a long supply chain that extends across an ocean, and they want to be able to pay for their goods in the local currency.
The developers make money through advertising and by offering users a way to pay for virtual goods in their games that could, for example, help them manage a virtual farm or defeat rival mobsters.
We are on the verge of one of the biggest changes in decades in how we pay for goods and services.
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So yeah, they should pay sales taxes on goods sold in California just as the brick and mortars do.
An index tracking prices that companies pay for goods jumped up sharply in July, which means inflation is a growing threat.
Coinbase operates an online service that allows users to buy Bitcoin, store the virtual currency in a digital wallet and pay merchants for goods or services with it.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, established by the Wall Street Reform Act President Obama signed into law in 2010, is charged with overseeing the federal financial laws that specifically protect consumers people who keep their money in banks and credit unions, pay for goods and services with their credit cards, and rely on loans to buy homes or pay for college, among other services.
Most customers prefer to pay in cash on delivery, and about a quarter of goods are rejected at the door.
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.
Patriotism is another strong consideration among U.S. consumers: 93 percent said that they would pay more for U.S.-made goods in order to keep jobs in the U.S., and 80 percent said that buying U.S. products demonstrates patriotism.
Bulk goods shoppers in need of a cart can pay 20 riyals to one of the elderly men pushing wheelbarrows.
One of the real weaknesses of the current system is the ludicrously inflated prices that Russian consumers pay for Western goods: prices are often 50% higher and in some cases significantly more than that.
As ever, the government pays lip service to economic liberalisation, but has neither the courage nor the authority to free itself of the commitment to pay billions of dollars in direct and indirect subsidies: prices of basic goods such as fuel, bread and medicine are ridiculously low.
With that promise in hand, the bank would make the purchase and immediately sell it onto the buyer at a mark-up, agreeing the buyer could pay, say, three months after goods are delivered--in effect, trade finance at a fixed rate with legal protection against default on the one side and loan sharking on the other.
The lower classes spend money on goods and services provided by people working in jobs that pay a middle-class or lower-class wage.
Slow-turning goods become the equivalent of cash to pay for something that in a better economy would have been covered by the cash flow and profits from customer sales.
And the Indian CEOs who are hiring those consumers are giving them the pay that they can use to express that confidence in the form of purchasing goods and services.
Rising pay in China has forced companies to find less-costly production locales, especially for goods that require armies of laborers such as apparel, shoes and linens.
Government spokesmen say that the money will not be spent in Venezuela but instead will be used to pay foreign debts or to purchase capital goods abroad.
Both services are eyeing up a bumper prize, the Olympic Games in London in 2012, where visitors are likely to be able to pay for souvenirs, transportation and other goods and services via their phones.
In surveying Chinese consumers, BCG found a willingness to pay more for U.S.-made goods.
On the one hand, that could slow down the buildup of yuan in Hong Kong's banking system as more of the currency exits the territory to pay for Chinese goods.
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The new ruling, passed June 3, gives Brazilian government owned power company Eletrobras (EBR), along with national and international equipment partners, the ability to buy capital goods, building materials, infrastructure materials and nuclear industry specific technologies for use in energy generation without having to pay the IPI, or industrial production tax, nor tariffs on imported goods.
Zaad, a mobile-money service, allows users to pay for goods by texting small amounts of money to a merchant's account, and is proving popular in Mogadishu.
Each layer of distribution adds to the cost of goods thus eating into their already razor-thin margins, since all consumer goods sold in India have an MSRP which is the final price a customer is willing to pay.
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