It pioneered the use of bar-code scanners, slick supply chains and inventory management tweaked to local purchasing preferences.
Developers from Boston started purchasing local real estate for weekend homes.
For U.S. companies, going global initially meant developing products in the U.S. and localizing them for European and Japanese markets where local consumers have similar purchasing power.
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They are both purchasing items from other local manufacturers as well as from international companies.
The purchasing deal will be managed by American Express Auto Purchasing Program working with local BMW dealers.
Local purchases would act just like purchasing from companies elsewhere except you would have to pay 10% more.
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One innovative company, Grease Lightning, based in New York City, has been purchasing used cooking oil from local restaurants to convert into biodiesel fuel since 2011.
Mr Williams, who is the leader of the local Plaid Cymru Group, a member of Pembrokeshire's National Park Authority and Chairman of its Development Management Committee, has suggested that the local authority should actively pursue a policy of compulsory purchasing second homes, claiming "this crisis needs that sort of action".
Earlier today, San Francisco-based housing-data firm Trulia.com released a new analysis of renting versus owning in various cities around the U.S. As part of the excercise, Trulia identified 10 cities where the cost of purchasing a home was exorbitant compared to the local cost of renting.
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The markets were chosen for several reasons including current hybrid purchasing trends, the acceptance of electric vehicle technology by local governments and the potential to collaborate with utility companies.
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When my son and I went to our local home goods chain store, we learned about a new back-to-school purchasing option which allows for people to scan, ship and pay in one seamless process.
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One major obstacle that we faced when launching our first project back in Zhongshan was that local buyers and factory investors that were coming in from Hong Kong and Macau had limited purchasing power.
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And tonight, I ask the Congress to support an innovative proposal to provide food assistance by purchasing crops directly from farmers in the developing world, so we can build up local agriculture and help break the cycle of famine.
And if local products are the best deal, we expect others outside of our community would be interested in purchasing them as well.
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