The Prime membership offers free and unlimited shipping on millions of eligible items on www.amazon.ca, with no minimum purchase.
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They refused to require a delivery charge or set a minimum purchase amount even when those policies began bleeding profits.
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Thus laws against driving under the influence, or minimum purchase ages, or sin taxes, are defensible at least in principle.
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The minimum purchase amounts are one-10th as much, because the SPDR trades for 10 cents per point on the index.
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There is no minimum purchase amount and no need to consolidate orders, so Canadians from coast-to-coast can enjoy a simpler, faster shopping experience.
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Wal-Mart may improve its sales by offering free shipping, but if there is no minimum purchase amount, small value purchases could lead to the retailer bearing higher expenses relative to sales.
The combination of plentiful monsoon rains and high minimum purchase prices for wheat and rice means the country is forecasting an all-time-high grain production of 250.42 million tons in the crop year ending June 30.
This was bad timing, since Sony had succeeded in developing its online community: at least two out of three Sony Playstation users play one online game per week, and Sony reportedly had more than 70 percent of registrants make one minimum app purchase.
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Each state sets its own laws for the minimum age to purchase cigarettes -- in most states, it's 18.
Ideally, the established regimes for alcohol and tobacco would be replicated, with licensed sales-outlets and minimum ages of purchase.
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However, I would still encourage citizens to purchase, at minimum, catastrophic coverage for hospitalization.
Like traditional no-load mutual funds they allow investors to access a portfolio of securities in a single purchase, generally with a low minimum investment.
Set up an automatic debit from your checking account and your purchase fees shrink even more, and some companies will waive minimum initial investments.
Since the start of 2011, the government had introduced many measures to cool down the runaway real estate market, such as pushing up minimum down-payments, limiting the number of homes a family could purchase in some cities and introducing property taxes in Shanghai and Chongqing.
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