1.   But as shopping habits changed many traders shut up shop and moved out blaming recession, traffic restrictions and fewer bus routes.

2.   A survey by WSL Strategic Retail, a New York consulting firm, illustrates just how deeply ingrained Wal-Mart has become in American shopping habits.

3.   But others think a more permanent shift in shopping habits may be underway.

4.   But the risk to Amazon could be well worth the while if it becomes the pre-eminent vault of information of Internet shopping habits.

5.   By now, everyone knows the shopping habits of the sisters.

6.   Even if Amazon does not eventually choose to expand into new products, it still has a lot to gain by learning more about consumer shopping habits.

7.   Even teen-agers, whose shopping habits and dialect have provided anthropological fodder for a generation of mall sociologists, are getting bored with the old format, experts say.

8.   In recent years consumers have been changing their shopping habits.

9.   Inflation has forced Iranians to alter both their shopping habits and their diets.