"shopping trends" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the popular consumer habits or preferences of a certain period of time. For example, "E-commerce has become increasingly popular due to the rise in customer convenience, allowing for modern shopping trends to take place."
"It's very much a new model," said John Gerzema, president of Brand Asset Consulting, who studies shopping trends.
The scene at the fulfillment center of Zappos.com, the online shoe retailer, outside Louisville, Ky., offered physical evidence of this year's online holiday shopping trends.
Vine is catering to other civic-minded shopping trends, too, with sections stocked with fair trade products or products made within 100 miles of a shopper's home.
Although Ford studies sales patterns and is highly aware of shopping trends, no one could have anticipated something as cataclysmic as Sept. 11.
Choose a specific theme, such as online shopping trends, the use of the Internet in schools, Internet filters, file-sharing, etc.
The research is conducted to analyze the prevalent shopping trends found amongst e-commerce sites (say A and B) by doing the survey of Indian population samples taking attributes of two leading companies.
There is one shopping trend that never goes out of fashion - getting something for nothing.
Even online shopping heavyweight Amazon.com, which should benefit from the internet shopping trend, was down 0.4% at $670.38.
The pull of the Boxing day sales belies the 24 hour shopping trend ushered in by the internet.
Meanwhile, the most unusual shopping trend John Lewis noticed was a 15% uplift in online purchases of Miele vacuum bags on Christmas Day compared to Christmas Eve.
Most of all there is a dizzying amount of stuff, and it is similarly difficult to figure out how to characterize what it all represents: an art movement, a craft phenomenon or shopping trend.
