People are buying flour, rice and sugar in bulk.
"It's like telling a baker that he can sell bread but he is not allowed to buy flour."
Without it they wont be able to buy flour.
I had to remember the feedings and keep buying flour.
The gold bought flour, mealy though it was, and machine oil and other things we could not make ourselves.
His small crop gone, he would be unable to buy flour and coffee and sugar.
At the shop they bought coffee, flour and sugar.
Their own grain did not last beyond Christmas, and they had to buy flour.
There was nothing unusual about this, except that there wouldn't be a spare dime to buy anything but flour, sugar, and coffee.
He also buys back flour from recipients, to resell in markets.