cash-and-carry

American  

[kash-uhn-kar-ee] / ˈkæʃ ənˈkær i /

adjective

1. sold for cash payment and no delivery service.

2. operated on such a basis.

   a cash-and-carry business.

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cash-and-carry British  

adjective

1. sold or operated on a basis of cash payment for merchandise that is not delivered but removed by the purchaser

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noun

1. a wholesale store, esp for groceries, that operates on this basis

2. an operation on a commodities futures market in which spot goods are purchased and sold at a profit on a futures contract

Etymology

Origin of cash-and-carry

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

The company pioneered the cash-and-carry model, allowing small-restaurant owners and other independent businesses to visit one of its warehouses to pick up food supplies at any time.

From The Wall Street Journal

The deal is meant to help Sysco expand into the high-margin and growing cash-and-carry distribution model, and serve more customers locally.

From The Wall Street Journal

These enablers "can't be bought in a hurry at the local cash-and-carry" as one European politician put it to me.

From BBC

And within the narrow formal range of cash-and-carry goods that art fairs were conceived to accommodate, there’s some variety.

From New York Times

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports Hardy was credited with “rethinking the lumber business in the late 1950s with a cash-and-carry approach focused on professional contractors and builders.”

From Seattle Times