The rest must all be sent abroad and exchanged for consumable goods of some kind or other.
It eats up the surplus of consumable goods, and it helps to preserve the special mental atmosphere that a hierarchical society needs.
The Chinese work like dogs churning out the world's consumable goods and then exchange those goods for pieces of paper called dollars.
Visitors to Allatoona spent more than $12 million for consumable goods in 1999.
Family Dollar plans to use market basket analysis to help maintain sales growth while moving towards stocking more low-margin consumable goods.
It would have been a tax haven, with all services paid by a 20% tax on imported consumable goods.
Everybody in the country had all the consumable goods they wanted, so the concepts of wealth and status began to change.
It cannot but lower the general standard of living, because the essential act of war is to manufacture armaments instead of consumable goods.
When prices began to rise after 1480, the sharpest increases occurred in consumable goods, such as wheat, rather than in industrial products.
The sole use of money is to circulate consumable goods.