Sentence examples for retail purchases from inspiring English sources

Re "Fairness on Sales Taxes" (editorial, May 2), about a Senate bill to end the sales tax exemption for many online retailers: To make retail purchases from brick-and-mortar businesses, I have to drive to a store.

Studies by the federal Bureau of Alcohol , Tobacco Firearms and Explosives have shown that the criminal market for guns is supplied largely through retail purchases of firearms from licensed gun dealers, often when a straw purchaser buys guns for a trafficker, who then sells the weapons to other criminals.

Most states collect 4 to 7 percent on retail purchases.

Retail purchases continued to shrink rapidly in December, and German sales were no exception.

The debit cards allow beneficiaries to make retail purchases with the card or withdraw the funds from automatic teller machines.

As consumers begin using cellphones for retail purchases and online banking, the potential damage from theft may increase, he said.

The Bryant issue has other rookies edgy, though Falcons rookie Corey Peters is ready for anything the veterans throw at him, assuming it's a simple retail purchase.

And it cannot really tell whether an ad encouraged someone to see a movie, TV show or event, or make a retail purchase.

But in a statement announcing its financial results today, Haynes said: "There is little doubt that during the period, retail purchasing budgets were tight and that much of those available budgets went towards the phenomenally successful Fifty Shades series".

As explained on Microsoft's site, copies of Windows 7 will be available for retail purchase for another year, and PC manufacturers then have an additional year to keep selling Windows 7 installed on new computers.

They make the occasional retail purchase, like a $500 living room rug or the plastic bowl designed by Ettore Sottsass that sits on the mantel beside a Wedgwood jasperware jar, bought for $30 at a Salvation Army store in Philadelphia.