How have your food buying habits changed in the past few years?

The ball game now, they add, often is being determined by basic changes in the nation's buying habits.

Why not use the information collected on our buying habits to help us get rid of stuff?

"Customers are now making it a consideration in their buying habits where they weren't before," he said.

Information about people and their buying habits was available long before the computer era, of course.

"But I don't think a 7-cent increase will affect their buying habits."

Can you imagine what that does to their buying habits?

The new product has moved from a novelty to a buying habit.

A more important reason is industry's failure to anticipate changes in American buying habits.

The report also says that Asians might be changing their buying habits.