1.   Customers bid on and paid for groceries on an Internet site and then used a special identification card to pick them up at any of thousands of supermarkets.

2.   Even though the company has had as many customers bidding this quarter, the airlines made available fewer seats and the average ticket price declined.

3.   Like Priceline.com, another popular site, Expedia.com allows its customers to bid on airline tickets.

4.   Priceline is the name-your-price Web site that allows customers to bid online for plane tickets, hotel rooms and other items.

5.   Priceline, based in Norwalk, Conn., lets customers bid for products on the Web.

6.   Priceline.com is the Connecticut company that has revolutionized the sale of everything from airline tickets to groceries by letting customers bid the prices they want to pay.

7.   A federal judge has thrown out the bulk of a trade secrets suit against Priceline.com, an Internet service allowing customers to bid for travel-related services.

8.   Last month, WebHouse Club, an independent licensee of Priceline that allowed customers to bid on gasoline and groceries, announced it would shut down.