Cash and carry

Cash and carry (or inspect and pay) is a type of operation within the wholesale sector.

The main features of cash and carry are summarized best by the following definitions: Though wholesalers buy primarily from manufacturers and sell mostly to retailers, industrial users and other wholesalers, they also perform many value-added functions.

The wholesaler, an intermediary, is used based on principles of specialization and division of labor as well as contractual efficiency.

[4] However, research on the evolution of grocery wholesaling in Ireland by Dr Jim Quinn at Trinity College Dublin notes that the first report of a UK cash and carry was in June 1957 when The Grocer announced that a cash and carry warehouse had been opened in Ramsgate by Vye & Son, which is a subsidiary of the Home & Colonial Group.

ft. modern Cash & Carry warehouse by far the biggest of its kind to date.