Ground meal can have a minimum purchase amount that can be expensive for a person with a small number of pigs.
The company hopes to raise a hundred million dollars by selling Lydian Coins at five dollars each (minimum purchase: twenty thousand dollars), and believes that it might make twice that much.
The human rights committee listed its concerns with this approach, including the many instances when people could only use cash such as at markets, on public transport, to give to family members, buying second-hand goods and at stores that had minimum purchase requirements for debit cards.
A number of online retailers also offered bargains that required no minimum purchase (10percentt off all orders at Banana Republic's siteand free shipping onall Target orders, for instance).
TRADEBONDS.COM www.tradebonds.com Tradebonds.com is an E-Trade-style online brokerage that requires a minimum purchase of about $25,000 in bonds.
For that reason, no minimum purchase will be required of shopowners who buy Mi Bodega products.
But smoking decreased in all age groups, the authors noted, suggesting that raising the minimum purchase age could not have been the only factor at work.
But John Douthwaite, chief executive of execution-only stockbroker SimplyStockbroking, points out that someone who made the minimum purchase of 100 shares, originally sold at 135p each, would now have a holding worth £1,721.
The National Federation of Independent Business reported in a 2008 survey that 13 percent of respondents required a minimum purchase before a customer could use a card, and 14 percent offered a cash discount.
But he added that Mr. Cayne had thrown out a minimum purchase price of four times the firm's book value, the value of its assets minus liabilities.
