Retailers plan carefully to avoid stampedes or the kind of shopper-on-shopper violence that repels customers and attracts negative media coverage.
Lynn Brisbois is the kind of shopper who is giving these companies holiday heartburn.
Lana Rumer, a Russian-speaking systems analyst, is the kind of shopper Mr. Riftin means.
Still, at $7,000 per square foot, a certain kind of shopper might consider it a bargain.
To make things easier for a certain kind of shopper, much of the high-end designer merchandise is split out into its own section.
He added that there had been "substantial investment" in its myWaitrose card which gives users a free coffee, leading to some customers suggesting it is attracting the "wrong" kind of shopper to the stores.
The mix caters to a new kind of shopper, one who's just as apt to be looking for a sofa to go under the painting as a painting to go over the sofa.
Andy Higginson, the chairman of Morrisons, says he has no idea if Fresh will be successful but he hopes to benefit from being introduced to a new kind of shopper – particularly in London, where the Bradford-based chain has few stores.
The hole-in-the-wall specialty shops that have long made Lower Manhattan a destination for a particular kind of shopper have never made a great deal of money.
Usually those items appeal to a particular kind of shopper: knockoffs of the Valentino Petale handbag, for girls who've watched too much "Sex and the City," or, for the sports fan, whatever sunglasses the athletic star of the moment was spotted wearing to his arraignment.
