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Corporate purchasing catalogs are entirely detached

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Companies selling pens and paper to large offices charge wildly inflated prices. They rely solely on the fact that the employee placing the order is using company money and absolutely does not care about comparing prices with reality.

Corporate purchasing catalogs are entirely detached
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