One Vancouver-based organization sends out women who hold the equivalent of environmental Tupperware parties to promote recycling and changes in buying habits.

No-Loads Gain A look at buying habits shows that mutual fund investors are increasingly independent.

"We're most frequently asked for information on our competitors, trends in buying habits, consumer attitudes and demographics," she said.

He would have people's TV viewing habits, most of all, buying and spending habits, who subscribes to what magazines.

But buying habits also depend on mood.

Pre-cycling means being conscious of buying habits and their effect on the amount of trash going to ever-shrinking landfill space.

Those clicks can reveal a person's interests and buying habits.

Buying habits historically wax and wane, so it is difficult to determine how much the spending slowdown really means.

Demographers detected a radical change in buying habits around the time of the Vietnam War.

Store managers said that, based on their own relatively small sampling of customers, they have some general impressions about buying habits of foreign shoppers.