Contract purchasing (sometimes called formal buying and/or…

“Noncontract purchasing (sometimes called informal buying) is done through verbal and written communications between buyer and vendor through telephone sales representatives. However, it may…

— Ruby Parker Puckett

“Standing order purchasing is made for such items as bread, milk, eggs, and other products that have daily deliveries. Bids are requested for these…

— Ruby Parker Puckett

“Savings in excess of 20 percent is the primary reason foodservice directors use group purchasing. Other benefits include product standardization, increased quality, decreased administrative…

— Ruby Parker Puckett

“With centralized purchasing, the most common method of purchasing used in health care institutions, a separate department in the institution specializes in purchasing the…

— Ruby Parker Puckett

Happiness in a tablet. This is our world. Prozac. Daxil. Xanax. Billions are spent to advertise such drugs. And billions are spent purchasing them.…

— Mitch Albom

If ever there was an area in which to do the exact opposite of that which government and the media urge you to do,…

— Robert Ringer

“There is M. Geborand purchasing paradise for a sou.”

— Victor hugo

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power…

— Alfred Marshall

In providing this $5,000 tax credit for those purchasing rural homes, we're offering an important incentive to encourage people to live in smaller communities…

— John M. McHugh

Viewed from a holistic ecological perspective, some meat - such as conscientiously hunted animals - involves less suffering and environmental damage than arable agriculture,…

— Tristram Stuart

If God had wanted us to spend all our time fretting about the problems of home ownership, He would never have created beer. This…

— Dave Barry

Using a service such as Chegg.com, students can save on average more than $600 a year when they rent textbooks over purchasing them.

— Osman Rashid

We are all too keenly aware that those of you who supported us by purchasing the 3DS in the beginningmay feel betrayed and criticize…

— Satoru Iwata

Purchasing items made in the U.S. for our stores here or Canadian goods for our stores in Canada makes good business sense because it…

— Doug McMillon

When the dollar collapses, it's not doing it in a vacuum. If the dollar loses value, it's doing so relative to some other currency.…

— Peter Schiff