11.   Most businesses reported light customer traffic.

12.   Much of its improvement came not from increasing sales, but from cutting costs and reducing promotions that brought in customer traffic without adding to profits.

13.   Nowhere is this more true than in the competitive discount store sector, which depends heavily on Sunday newspaper circulars to draw customer traffic.

14.   On weekdays, customer traffic at the CONASUPO hits high gear at the lunch hour.

15.   Part of the reason, they say, is that discount chains sell popular drugs at a loss to generate customer traffic.

16.   Radio Shack will benefit from the increased customer traffic that Sprint will bring to its stores.

17.   Ray Viola, the store manager, said it used a computer to help study customer traffic and plan staffing.

18.   Store managers also are testing an automated scheduling system designed to better match worker hours with customer traffic.

19.   The company blamed a decline in customer traffic and the impact of costs associated with closing three restaurants for the loss.

20.   The company had a marketing tie-in with Yahoo Inc. and in recent months had occasionally been generating nearly as much customer traffic as eBay and Amazon.com.