11.   Impulse buys, in which customers tap a code into a remote and a movie follows, have also spurred in-home sales of pornographic films.

12.   Interior designers advise on how to contend with an impulse buy, or a piece of furniture that goes against the grain of what you have in your home.

13.   Most consumers are not in a mood to shop, are generally uninformed about the products and are forced into an impulse buy.

14.   Situated near cash registers, they work as impulse buys, meaning consumers pick them up while waiting with wallet in hand.

15.   Start at the bakery section, where nutritional realities could get in the way of the impulse buy.

16.   The last thing I needed was a faster way to make impulse buys.

17.   They are perhaps the ultimate impulse buys in books.

18.   They are the ultimate impulse buys.

19.   They had been backed with felt and were displayed next to the cash register, to encourage an impulse buy.

20.   Will computers join the likes of gum, batteries and magazines as impulse buys in the checkout aisle?