The bookstore operates 'on sale or return'. [=books in the store can be returned to the book supplier if the store does not sell them]
('Brit') I bought these shoes 'in the sales'. [=at a time when many stores have a sale]
disappointing 'sales figures' [=numbers that show how much money was made from sales]
(..) say the old folks It goes to show you never can tell They furnished off an apartment With a two-room Roebuck sale The coolerator was crammed With TV dinners and ginger ale But when Pierre found work The little money comin' worked out well (..)1994 Pulp Fiction