Adults have become more frequent buyers of action figures.
Goodlin sold sin and depravity-the fact that Lababiti was a frequent buyer made little difference.
The biggest reason frequent flyers are becoming frequent buyers is that flying has become more time-consuming and less pleasant.
The Sheraton Corporation was one of the first frequency marketers to make other products, rather than its own, the main reward for frequent buyers.
Or more correctly, a frequent buyer obsessive.
"Most regular donors are subscribers or frequent single-ticket buyers," said one development officer at a West Coast orchestra.
She thinks stamp collectors will be the most frequent buyers, although they would have to pay the same price as a drug dealer.
Microsoft and America Online, for example, are frequent buyers of other companies.
Young families, often from Queens and Brooklyn, are frequent buyers.
Customers are an economically diverse group and mostly male, but women are becoming more frequent buyers.