1.   It is a trend that supermarkets are belatedly beginning to recognise and is forcing them to break out of the straight jacket of their centralised buying habits.

2.   Buyer needs, problems and buying habits.

3.   Along the way, Huddle-Hall became aware of the effect her buying habits had on the environment.

4.   An entire media subindustry exists that tries to grab their attention and thereby give advertisers a chance to shape their buying habits.

5.   At this rate, at the next meeting of the Federal Reserve Board, perhaps Fed chairman Alan Greenspan will praise teenage buying habits for having averted a recession.

6.   Author Faith Popcorn, who tracks social, economic and political trends on lifestyles and buying habits, thinks the opposite is true.

7.   But she has this buying habit that shocks me.

8.   But the biggest surprise in buying habits is with the red wines, with the popularity of Merlot falling way short of Cabernet.

9.   But prospective Club DLM members are told they will all receive coupons in custom mailings targeted to their buying habits.

10.   Buying habits historically wax and wane, so it is difficult to determine how much the spending slowdown really means.