Q. Do your customers plan to come to you, or are they impulse shoppers?

The impulse shoppers of the 1980's have been replaced by a discerning, disciplined breed of collector.

Other finds included inexpensive statement shoes like a pair of cool-enough white lace-ups, which not even the most incorrigible impulse shopper could regret buying at only $90.

That approach, Mr. Ittner said, appeals more to impulse shoppers.

Nor is he an impulse shopper.

UNLIKE an impulse shopper, Edward Harris had a good reason for buying a new computer.

But the impulse shoppers on which we depend turn around and go home after being stuck in traffic for a half-hour.

"People who respond to newspaper ads are impulse shoppers," Mr. Damashek explained.

Voion were closing in on the vessel from three sides; he recognized the evicted impulse shopper in the van, limping on an out-of-round wheel.

"No, just lots of experience as an impulse shopper."