Store officials like the pagers because they help pick up impulse sales, he said.
From this has descended a confused identity and any number of ills: mall-like, low-functioning new wings and expansions; museum bookstores largely devoid of books; ever-larger departments of "education''; and boards of trustees too willing to approve impulse sales from the permanent collection or to siphon authority from seasoned curators.
The imprint, called HarperTeen Impulse, will begin sales on Dec. 4 for short fiction in a variety of genres.
The ICC and its member boards took control of women's cricket in 2005, and are still looking at it like a jumble-sale impulse buy.
Marketers use behavioral psychology to design ads and sites that keep us clicking and buying: think flash sales, impulse buys, and celebrity endorsements.
In the industry of retail paintball, there are a number of factors influencing purchases such as product features, product reputation, word of mouth, availability, pricing, up-sales, cross-sales, and impulse buys.
A few who stumbled on the sale considered impulse purchases, cellphones to their ears ("It's pretty big, yeah. And it's blue with white stars").
Where should they place their products in stores if 30percentt of sales are impulse buys?
Retail Forward, whose surveys show consumers buying fewer premium brands and cutting out most impulse buys, forecasts that sales will decline into the third quarter of 2009, with only a slight rebound in the fourth quarter.
Geoff Bywater, head of Fox's music department, anticipated considerable sales from impulse buyers in retail stores.
