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installment buying

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  1. Purchasing a commodity over a period of time. The buyer gains the use of the commodity immediately and then pays for it in periodic payments called installments.


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In some corners of the internet, buying less—or “underconsumption”—has already started to take off.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

The trajectory of internet buying has flipped from bananas to bananas confusing.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2022

Will internet buying return to something like the fairly steady growth rate of the decade before 2020?

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2022

The group assembled over the past week, mostly, it seems, because it seemed like a bunch of randos on the internet buying an important historical document would be a funny thing to do.

From The Verge • Nov. 18, 2021

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