1.   The four ladies found the whole hypermarket shopping experience an immense contrast to the very basic counter service shops that predominate in their home country.

2.   Also giving most consumers a tax-free shopping experience are a host of retailers who exist only in cyberspace.

3.   And at the same time, the customers reported that the digital shopping experience was not always smooth.

4.   Analysts say Wal-Mart offers the same toys for less money and the shopping experience is better.

5.   At the Prada store, Antonioni is recast as a shopping experience.

6.   At the time, Amazon.com said it planned to use the technologies to personalize the shopping experience and to make it possible to buy practically anything at its site.

7.   Ben Boyd, director of communications for BarnesandNoble.com in New York, said price is not the only way of comparing the two shopping experiences.

8.   Bezos says one secret to his success is thinking of ways to make the online shopping experience more fun.

9.   A fast-loading first page is critically important in sending a message to users that the entire shopping experience will be fast, Hagerman and others said.

10.   According to the conventional wisdom, consumers who shop during off-peak periods should be able to experience a smoother and less glitchy shopping experience.