When shopping, there is an enormous amount of impulse items designed to entice you to spend.

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We enter the supermarket with a shopping list, and invariably purchase additional items on impulse, often less healthy foods in part because the supermarket designers know what foods to place in which locations to spur on such purchases.

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However, Hunt cautions against taking children window-shopping or over-exposing them to stores, which may encourage consumerism and impulse buying.

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Shopping via the Web, then, may cut down on this season's impulse purchases and help shoppers stay focused.

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