31.   Our buying habits reflect the paradox.

32.   One Vancouver-based organization sends out women who hold the equivalent of environmental Tupperware parties to promote recycling and changes in buying habits.

33.   Our buying habits are tightly bound to the image we want to present to the world, she writes.

34.   Recent immigrants who speak little English are a group whose buying habits are difficult to predict.

35.   Some chain bookstores and grocery stores already keep tabs on our buying habits.

36.   So well have grocers studied our buying habits and emotional triggers that we now move through stores on autopilot.

37.   Such buying habits extend the peak shipping season by pushing the busiest delivery days further back on the calendar.

38.   That is changing buying habits and the mail-order plant and seed business.

39.   That meant shoppers had to reach into their savings or borrow money to maintain their buying habits.

40.   The company specializes in tracking the buying habits of consumers by compiling purchase data through supermarket and drugstore checkout scanners.