impulse buying

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Low-cost chain Fix Price on Wednesday became the latest retailer to note that consumers are focusing on more essential purchases as uncertainty limits impulse buying.

From Reuters

This ensures you don’t buy items already in the fridge and helps avoid impulse buying of nonessential foods.

From Los Angeles Times

The goal is to slow down impulse buying of military-style guns, build in a cooling-off period and give authorities a chance to identify troubled gun buyers to monitor more closely.

From Washington Post

That deluge peddles false escapes into impulse buying and degrading entertainment, and for almost the last three decades social media platforms have amplified and catalyzed the viral spread of the violent displacement of rage and envy by the most deeply wounded among us.

From Salon

Also, the pandemic has prompted more people to order online and have groceries delivered or available for curbside pickup — practices that keep you out of the store and discourage impulse buying.

From Washington Post