Marshal Cohen, chief industry analyst for the NPD Group, said the number reflects an increase in impulse purchases and in personal purchases by shoppers, both good signs for sales in the holiday season.
By paying in advance, you can take advantage of an average of 10% off menu prices and more effectively budget your food expenditures, instead of giving in to impulse purchases.
Paying for items with a debit or credit card has removed the pain of handing over cash, which makes it easy to give in to impulse purchases and overspend.
Last week the photos were offered to the British press, which, in a splendid impulse of virtue, declined the offer.
The isolationist impulse in the US is what caused the US to enter both world wars years after they began.
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She did make up the bed and tidy her own little messes in the kitchen or the bathroom, but in general the impulse to take on any wholesale sweep of housecleaning was beyond her.
While voters blame Republicans for the lack of bipartisanship in Washington, the fact is that they do not believe Mr. Obama has made any progress in improving the impulse towards cooperation between the two parties.
It has instead represented the more recent impulse in our politics to sweep uncomfortable events out of the news, move forward in the Twitter news cycle, or grind it down into no more than partisan pettiness.
In contrast and as an example of the innovation impulse elsewhere, in India GE has created a mobile electrocardiogram, which is routinely praised as a case study in how to use frontier markets to innovate.
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Those who saw trouble in store thought a crisis would provide the impulse for greater integration in future.
And you can make that impulse clearer in a world where the rules were clearer.
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Which devices are likely to sell themselves best as an impulse purchase in a supermarket bay in early December?
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According to Elliott Wave Theory, one of the three impulse waves in a five wave movement will likely be an abnormally long (or extended) wave.
This in fact is already happening, with a select number of companies already deploying enhanced mobile and location-based technology to improve the in-store and impulse buying experience.
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In a wild recurrent impulse, there was the temptation to be there with her father, who did not know that she knew, had been told, as he was that Saturday.
Wilsonian in its view of the universal nature of the human impulse to freedom, neoconservatives in recent years have wholeheartedly embraced the notion that if given a chance to make their sentiments known, most people will choose liberal democracy over any other form of government.
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However, in 2010, Swiss balloonist Bertrand Piccard plans to launch Solar Impulse, a manned plane in which he will attempt to circumnavigate the globe.
The failures of the show in no way discredit the impulse behind it.
This will drive impulse purchases and in my opinion lead to less dropouts through the payment process and therefore higher sales.
As women, in many cases, the impulse to do something out of the norm of our peer group, like write an opinion piece or ask for a promotion, has simply never occurred to us.
Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Chinese spiritualities, Armstrong examines the diminished impulse toward religion in our own time, when a significant number of people either want nothing to do with God or question the efficacy of faith.
The fact that supported by the Russian government fund will investment in projects inside Russia in cooperation with foreign companies has created a major impulse for the market players who were not sure whether to invest in Russia.
He says surpluses of food in the richer countries weakened the impulse to improve yields.
It is an impulse with deep roots in Chinese architectural tradition, dating back thousands of years.
These bipartisan declarations are not evidence of some untoward American impulse towards imperialistic hegemony in space.
These emotions in turn trigger an almost irresistible impulse to buy and sell at exactly the wrong moment.
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Our ability to resist an impulse determines our success in learning a new behavior or changing an old habit.
Back in Knoxville, he decided on impulse one afternoon to drop by the inconspicuous mosque near campus, even though it wasn't a Friday, the day Muslims gather to pray.
Men are more likely to make expensive impulse buys and to give in to their children's demands for sweets, so Food Plus stores offer more of these goods at the weekend.
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