1.   American shoppers obviously are being careful.

2.   American shoppers have bought half a million boxes of the British vegetarian product Quorn since January.

3.   American shoppers would be surprised to know that much of the food they buy has genetically engineered ingredients.

4.   And American shoppers can afford to take a day off for the same reason.

5.   At the time Al-Fayed was engaged in a struggle for control of a retail shopping empire that included Harrods, a mecca for American shoppers.

6.   Before long, the ways of the American shopper will be as codified and demystified as those of a Yanomami tribesman.

7.   But American shoppers can face many other obstacles.

8.   But American shoppers may find that their best source is a plant of their own.

9.   But it is becoming increasingly apparent that American shoppers are also fueling the recoveries just starting to be charted in depressed economies overseas.

10.   Few American shoppers imagine the grim conditions at the foreign factories, advocates say.