Talk:Cash and carry (disambiguation)

U.S. neutrality acts
Could someone who is an expert in military history/politics provide more detail in this section please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.50.9.157 (talk • contribs) 22:01, 4 February 2006. (UTC)


 * The Cash and Carry Act kept the U.S. neutral in a way because they did not have ships in the sea, since the country had to carry their own weapons back. Not having ships shipping the weapons made sure that the U.S would not go into war since they would not be attacked. (The bombing of the Lusitania ship was one of the main causes for the U.S entering WWI.) Other ways the Cash and Carry broke the U.S's nutrality acts. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.33.142.228 (talk • contribs) 01:12, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

The Civil War
Confederate_States_of_America mentions cash and carry. Should it be mentioned here? Xiner (talk, email) 22:38, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
 * It's no longer mentioned in the article. The 28 January 2007 version of the article mentioned cash and carry in the lead but not the body. There was no source/citation and so we don't know if the term was used during the civil war era or was a modern writer's description of the practice. --Marc Kupper&#124;talk 05:21, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

need article on generic meaning
A cash and carry store is a particular type of retail store that once was fairly revolutionary and was the precursor of the entire impersonal retail world as we know it now, in which vendors have no personal relationship with their customers. Until railroads and especially until the automobile appeared, people typically bought everything locally from other people they'd known all their lives, but that has changed, and cash-and-carry stores were an important step in that development.

There are WP articles about chain stores that have appropriated the term cash and carry in their names, or variations on it, but no article on the generic concept itself and the history and importance of cash and carry retail stores. There should be. I would write it myself, but I have no resources to build it with.--Jim10701 (talk) 14:57, 6 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Agreed. For now, I've added the generic term to this article. I don't know the term for it but you used to call in your grocery order and then either go in and pick it up or they would deliver it to you. Often, there was no extra charge for delivery.  Page 20 of this book mentions both the call to order system plus "cash and carry" is mentioned on page 21.


 * I was reading a short story written in 1950 and spotted "Mother, when you order groceries, get a couple of cans of dog food." I suspect that one will not be a good WP:RS as it did not define the calling to order groceries concept but for the record:  --Marc Kupper&#124;talk 05:12, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress
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