You can also buy crystal in the state-run stores but it is more expensive and must be paid for in dollars.

Porcelain-shard boxes that can be found in Beijing's overpriced state-run stores for less than $2 started at $15.

Other suggestions, he said, include the following: *Restricting cigarette sales to state-run stores or pharmacies.

The first reference point for setting prices each morning is the state-run stores, and the two said they made sure to undercut Ms. Wisniewska's establishment.

However, by 1925, vodka had reappeared in state-run stores.

Turkmenistan is one of the region's top cotton producers, but cottonseed oil cannot be found in the bare shelves of the local state-run store.

The knowledgeable Raskas are not permitted to bring in items on consignment, a privilege reserved for the state-run stores.

Some states prohibit shipments; in others, the government controls sales at state-run stores.

They must rely on zlotys like a kind of company scrip to purchase hard-to-find goods in the state-run stores.

By contrast, Czechoslovakia has retained price ceilings for staple items sold by state-run stores.