Sentence examples for central buying from inspiring English sources

"A lot of the stuff that I wouldn't read, I wouldn't necessarily stock". It is the antithesis of central buying.

To spearhead reform, particularly in central government, Maude created a central buying service, the Crown Commercial Service (CCS).

Retailer cooperatives, such as ACE hardware stores, are grouped as independent retailers who establish a central buying organization and conduct joint promotion efforts.

Gone, for instance, is the old tyranny of central buying, the process whereby Bath, Bolton and Blackpool would be instructed by head office which books to order.

In announcing proposals for a radical range of options (pdf), including setting up central buying of power, Ofgem's chief executive, Alistair Buchanan, admitted that maintaining the current free-market approach was no longer an option.

The proposals could force the government to undo the privatisation of the energy markets led by Margaret Thatcher and could force a form of nationalisation again if it decides to implement central buying of power.

The stock changes all the time as Poundland Central buys a Cancelled Order of this or that, originally meant for Uzbekistan or Thailand.

Mustafa Korel, campaigns co-ordinator for Hackney Green party, says his mother's ex-council house in Hackney central, bought for £70,000 15 years ago, was recently valued at £339,000.

Asian central banks, buying American Treasuries and agency debt, have taken their place.

Another option, according to analysts at R.B.S., entails the central bank buying government bonds, which the bank has avoided.

It could be, of course, that quantitative easing (central banks buying government bonds) is keeping yields artificially low.