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We believe consumers' growing familiarity and confidence with online shopping, coupled with a dramatic increase in broadband penetration and continuing efforts by retailers to simplify the shopping process across channels, will translate to substantial gains for online merchants again this year.

Xbox does have a material impact for Microsoft in the December quarter because of the holiday shopping season. The fact it was capacity constrained in December will probably create some headwinds for their overall quarter.

If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.

The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the corporation. They mock current assumptions and express the imaginative, unconventional, noncommercial view of the world in its simplest and purest form. They appeal to the imaginative, questioning, rebellious child within all of us, renew our instinctive energy, and act as a force for change. This is why such literature is worthy of our attention and will endure long after more conventional tales have been forgotten.

Weekly $25,000 shopping binges at Barney's and "high end" boutiques for clothes I barely wore were the norm. So were lavish meals with friends where I picked up $1000 tabs. These high-priced activities were within my limits because I was extremely successful financially, a testament to my manic behavior, not to mention my involvement in illegal activities.

The continuous introduction of new and innovative products that bring more features and benefits to customers and our efforts to make stores easier to navigate and fun to shop drove average ticket. In 2005, we broadened our assortment and enhanced the store appearance, which resulted in a differentiated shopping experience for our customers.

The fact that the Internet will influence nearly half of total retail sales in 2010 is staggering statistic for a shopping channel that will have been around for little more than 15 years by 2010.

With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down the list. It is something I do intend to get.

I love Tate Modern; there's such great style and shopping here. I love the galleries and the pubs out on the street, just having your pint as the sun is setting.

It's almost a work-shopping process to create the characters with the actors.

I absolutely fell in love with Moscow. It's one of those places where you can't help but trip over history at every turn. It's a city of enormous contradictions. Within a few yards of Lenin's Tomb is some of the most expensive shopping in the world.

The Pain-Free Shopping Method: Buy a present for you, then a present for a friend. Then another present for you. Then a present for a friend. Then two presents for you. Then a present for a friend. Then go home, get into bed, and pull up the covers.

Swingers are all from the suburbs and consequently brain-addled by car pools, shopping malls, and welcome wagons.

PERSONALITY TITHE: A price paid for becoming a couple; previously amusing human beings become boring: 'Thanks for inviting us, but Noreen and I are going to look at flatware catalogs tonight. Afterward we're going to watch the shopping channel.

Negative? Moi? I think realistic might be a better word. You mean to tell me we can drive all the way here from L.A. and see maybe ten thousand square miles of shopping malls, and you don't have maybe just the weentsiest inkling that something, somewhere has gone very very cuckoo?

Shopping is Not Creating.

One beautiful day, a radiant day, Mr Abramovich introduced himself to me and said I should put a shopping list together

One quarter of what you buy will turn out to be mistakes.

I was doing the family grocery shopping accompanied by two children, an event I hope to see included in the Olympics in the near future.

Nobody wants to worship you if you have the same problems, the same bad breath and messy hair and hangnails, as a regular person. You have to be everything regular people aren’t. Where they fail, you have to go all the way. Be what people are too afraid to be. Become whom they admire. People shopping for a messiah want quality. Nobody is going to follow a loser. When it comes to choosing a savior, they won't settle for just a human being.

The next time you go shopping, demand more change.

Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity, you will become a statistic.

Cooking and shopping for food brings rhythm and meaning to our lives.

You build your world around someone, and then what happens when he disappears? Where do you go-into pieces, into atoms, into the arms of another man? You go shopping, you cook dinner, you work odd hours, you make love to someone else on June nights. But you're not really there.

How inexplicable it seems. Anything else will be accepted as a better excuse. If one sets aside time for a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or a shopping expedition, that time is accepted as inviolable. But if one says: I cannot come because that is my hour to be alone, one is considered rude, egotistical or strange.

Style is the only thing you can't buy. It's not in a shopping bag, a label, or a price tag. It's something reflected from our soul to the outside world. An emotion.

We're designed to be hunters and we're in a society of shopping. There's nothing to kill anymore, there's nothing to fight, nothing to overcome, nothing to explore. In that societal emasculation this everyman is created.

It is nonsense that people shopping online in some parts of Europe are unable to access the best deals because of where they live. I want completing the single market to be our driving mission.

When I was 10 I used to walk around shopping centres and go, "Oh, they've recognised me!" And I would think, "hold on, who am I? I'm nobody famous yet!" - Darren on 60 Minutes

I was Christmas shopping and ran into a guy on the street. I noticed his watch and said that it runs slow. He said, "So does the guy I stole it from."

When Martha gets out she'll be under house arrest in her big $40 million mansion in Bedford. Boy, that'll teach her. She's only allowed out of the house for doctors visits, grocery shopping, or to dump more stock.

There are 17 more shopping days until Christmas. So, guys, that means 16 more days till we start shopping, right?

We're trying to stay at Fishermen's Village. We want the shopping center management to reconsider extending our lease. I don't think they realize the amount of traffic we generate for the shopping center. There are other spots available in Charlotte County, but none are high-traffic areas. (The Port Charlotte) Town Center mall is not an option because there are no available stores.

There are many simple things online merchants can do to keep customer satisfaction numbers high. Part of it is clear product descriptions, and clearly addressing the things that make customers uncomfortable shopping online, like security, shipping charges and returns.

We bumped into each other while shopping in LA and she invited me to one of her rehearsals. So I went and it was great. Courtney was fun. She's cool. She's a very passionate and intense person and she actually reminded me of my mom, so I felt very at home.

While stores continue to be a very important part of our business, there is no mistaking the fact that the customers' shopping preference, measured by both traffic and sales, continues to move to a virtual experience.

While our customers' needs are met online by the people who do it better than anyone else, we will provide them with what we do best ? the books, music and movies they love to explore in an engaging shopping atmosphere,

We know that our customers are time-pressed and looking for shopping destinations that meet multiple needs, ... By providing easy access between our two stores, we are able to offer our customers a truly one-stop shopping experience for all their apparel and home fashion needs, along with great values.

We were not expecting to find these kinds of numbers because this was basically a group of savvy computer users. And when you have almost one-third of them saying Web shopping was extremely difficult or somewhat difficult, we think the average population is having even more difficulty.

Though a large percentage of shopping has been completed, many sales have not been recorded due to heavy purchasing of gift cards, which are not recorded until merchandise is redeemed. Most consumers will have their shopping completed by Christmas Day, but will head out after Christmas to take advantage of discounted merchandise and spend gift cards.

We conducted a survey of 1,146 consumers last September where we asked them if they would pay more for groceries in a pleasant shopping environment and 45 percent said they would, ... That's surprising, because we do live in a Wal-Mart world where consumers are exceptionally price savvy.

We have been seeing this movement for some time now - our hotels are full, our restaurants, the track is doing great business and not just from locals. We are seeing a lot of people from outside our area coming here. They are shopping in our stores, buying gas at our stations.

When people travel, they seek out the familiar as respite against all the new. And there's nothing more familiar in this country than a shopping mall, ... In any state, the most visited place is a mall.

When people say to me, 'Why aren't people shopping in department stores anymore?' I tell them our sales this year will be $27 billion, which is a lot of shopping in department stores.

When people abandon shopping carts they may have intended to purchase, but they often are trying to determine if there are any hidden fees at checkout first. They want to know how much shipping and taxes are. That's why we included a shipping calculator on our shopping cart.

We think this is a good follow to the March 25 demonstration, and it is on the way to May 1, which will be a day without immigrants working, shopping or going to school nationwide.

We think these results indicate the critical role Web shopping is beginning to play in the U.S. economy. Last year was the beta testing year online for holiday shopping?now we believe the gauntlet for traditional bricks and mortar stores has been thrown down.

To me, the concern right now is that holiday shopping has been spotty . We had a great Black Friday , the week after that was miserable and then sales ticked up again after that,

Toronto focus group participants told us they love to shop in Buffalo. They described Buffalo as affordable, accessible and offering great product variety. This promotion confirms what our research suggested - that Buffalo is a very attractive short break and shopping destination for the Ontario market.

We are shopping Eric. Obviously, we would much rather have Eric released. But if we can work out a trade, we will. But if not, we're back to Square 1 and Eric won't play for the Bills. He doesn't want to play for them, and he will not play for them.

We avoided the sticker shock from high heating bills in October because it was so warm. If it stays warm through Thanksgiving, we should have a good holiday shopping season.

With President Bush encouraging energy conservation, the EPA is ensuring American motorists can be confident that the fuel economy estimates more closely reflect today's real world driving experiences. Consumers weigh a variety of factors when shopping for a new vehicle. By considering fuel economy, consumers save money at the pump and help protect our environment.

With people away from their homes -- at parties, shopping or just at work -- the holidays can be an open invitation for burglars. Homeowners can help stop these crimes by installing and using a home security system or by attaching motion sensors to their outdoor lighting.

With both Christmas and Hanukkah coming late in the week, and considering that two of last year's top four shopping days fell immediately before Christmas, it is still possible that we will see a boost in spending.

The quiet Christmas Eve seems to suggest that consumers treated Saturday and Sunday as their rest days and that the savvy shopper is now back out shopping with a vengeance.

This really is open season. It's shopping time.

Toby's intimate knowledge of online retailing will be a tremendous asset as we leverage our growing online businesses to serve our customers and provide a seamless and integrated shopping experience with our stores,

When you look at medium vs. large SUVs, I think there is already a lot of back-and-forth shopping and buying between those segments, and that will continue.

When you look at any shopping center these days, the risk issue is significant. Except maybe at Fashion Valley.

What's holding up the consumer is habit. Until things change in a very material manner, American consumers won't alter their shopping habits significantly. The jobs market is strong and there's been a little bit of improvement in wage growth. I still don't believe that gas prices are high enough to derail consumers. If there is one thing that could shake consumers it's the housing market and not gas inflation.

While it's true that some sites are significantly more useful than others, the industry has improved to a point where there are no bad manufacturer sites. This study again confirms that the more useful a site is, the more traffic it is likely to drive to dealerships. The automotive industry is providing better online shopping experiences to more shoppers than ever before, making manufacturer sites an increasingly important stop when researching a new vehicle to purchase.

With only 26 percent of households having completed their holiday shopping . . . this holiday season will certainly come down to the wire.

We had some students with offers in the fall who are shopping around. That's a great position to be in when you're 22-years old.

Expectations for the holiday shopping season have been pretty high, but actual sales seem to have fallen a bit short, which is hurting shares.

Exposure at another event outside Las Vegas really raised the profile and awareness of the shopping opportunities found in Las Vegas.

We're hoping to help a segment that's already shopping at our stores but wasn't necessarily finding what was essential to them.

We're talking about pavement - houses and shopping malls. It's very difficult to reverse that.

We're talking about inventory that would have shipped in the last month and would have appeared in PCs shipping around Thanksgiving, ... You're running smack into the holiday shopping season.

We've been looking for ways to enhance our one-stop shopping experience and compliment our pharmacy business.

We wanted to build a shopping experience toward convenience-oriented buyers who wanted to buy new items and make the purchases really quickly.

We also delete inquiries from other employers so if you're shopping around for a job, they wouldn't be able to see that.

We're such a unique retailer and our whole shopping experience is different. You have to be used to thinking differently and open to learning a different way of doing business.

We've not expressed anything. Our key thing we're doing right now is being in stock, ... When you have times like these, we have many people who are shopping with us who don't normally shop with us. We want them to keep coming back. We emphasize that at every meeting.

We've never seen anything like it. It literally covered one end of the shopping center to the other and in some instances, 10 inches deep.

What needs to happen downtown, I think, is for some momentum to begin. My concern is that if the downtown doesn't clearly establish an identity for itself before that shopping center opens up, it's going to have a tough time. Too often, people wait before they take action, and by then it's too late.

To its huge credit, GUS has moved from being a rag-tag of businesses with a reliance on a declining home shopping market to a very focused retail group.

With his extensive experience, knowledge of the toy business and strong industry relationships, we are confident that Greg will deliver dynamic marketing campaigns for Toys 'R' Us that will reinforce the company's position as the toy authority and create a more compelling shopping experience for our customers.

This year online shopping has gone mainstream, where we're seeing a greater percentage of consumers from different age and income demographics buying on the Internet.

When you own a shopping mall and someone sets up a small business alongside of it, you still own the shopping mall.

We spend a lot of time and a lot of money and a lot of effort in making sure that the product sold to consumers is absolutely top notch, as part of that we regularly clean our shopping trolleys.

We understand that grocery shopping is a local experience. People buy their groceries in the same communities where they live and work. So when it comes to giving, our customers expect us to make a difference locally, and we do.

We're going to be investigating different channels of shopping in the upcoming years and the ones that get approved will become permanent.

We see customers across every department shopping up our assortment.

We saw the same trends in lowered satisfaction and key behaviors tied to loyalty last year. However, last year's drops were far more significant. This year, online retailers did a better job managing customer expectations as the holiday shopping deadlines approached. In return, retailers will be rewarded with higher loyalty long after the holiday season comes to a close.

This will start to show up on the radar screen in 2006. The more different pieces we add to these Swiss Army phones, the easier it is to get user acceptance for the next application. And especially around next Christmas, the convenience of shopping on a computer or a cell phone will beat the mall hands down.

We are asking people not to go to school, or work, or shopping and instead to go out and protest against the racist and inhumane measures in this bill.

Best Buy is taking a leadership position within the retail industry with our plans to eliminate mail-in rebates. Our customers told us they hate mail-in rebate programs. As a result, we're working as a company to find new solutions to give our customers a better shopping experience, while remaining competitive on pricing.

Even though gas prices have been declining since their peak in early September, consumers are still feeling the emotional and financial pinch, and they clearly see shopping online as a great way to conserve cash they spend on loved ones this holiday season.

Everything you do on Facebook will affect what comes in your view in the future. If you like crappy things that you don't care about, you'll see more crappy brands that you don't care about in the future, and it might even affect your experiences when you walk into bars, churches, schools, shopping malls, etc.

Everything we've done has been toward keeping the team in Pittsburgh. That's been a number one priority. If we had wanted to move the team, the easy thing to do would have been to play out the lease and then start shopping the team around.

At that point, instability in the processes being used required the dedication of vast amounts of time and money to inspection. We wanted complete stability and reliability in our operations. To achieve that, we began shopping for software that would identify any defects in our manufacturing processes.

At that time Uganda had four aircraft, one of which was at the exclusive disposal of Amin. It would fly to London on shopping trips for the president and his entourage. In Uganda there was nothing.

at a Broadway show and shopping for shoes,

Continued job cutting as a result of a slowing economy and increased outsourcing could prompt a significant decline in job security and a subsequent reduction in consumer spending just as we head into the all-important holiday shopping season,

Consider the example of a developer wanting to figure out the best location for a new shopping center. It becomes much easier to create a map with the appropriate value and demographics information using Vista. These are truly intelligent applications.

Downtown Palm Springs is one big open air shopping plaza. But there is a real void in the quick, casual (food) category.

Customers behave a little differently online than in the stores. Shopping in stores is a full sensory experience. So if you're testing something for stores, you'd want to test it in the in-store environment.

Customers are shopping with us. They love our merchandise and the value we offer. They are responding to the enhancements we've made to our stores and our increased marketing and promotional events. This response tells us that our strategy is right on track.

Customers are shopping the market. They expect a deal when they come in.

Cultural venues should be all over Palm Beach County. The west has this population and deserves super libraries, shopping centers and entertainment. It's part of bringing amenities to where people live.