One thing that could start to change those habits is the increasing use of the internet, where many intending car buyers go to window shop and to compare prices and options.
With such tales in mind, investors should regard the stock market's recent mauling as a rare opportunity to buy, or at least window-shop, for undervalued stocks.
Many more of the US-based players are putting themselves in the shop window at this tournament.
"I fell in love with her things in the window of a shop called Absinthe, " he recalls.
But the cosy relationship between shop window and inventory owner may not be all that appealing to customers.
Digital terrestrial is likely to act as a shop window for its pay-TV satellite service and drive more viewers towards BSkyB.
Staff at a Jessops store in Cheshire put their photographs in the shop window in an attempt to find new jobs.
He was serving people in his chip shop when a young yob came in, yelled abuse, spat at customers and smashed the shop window.
Looking at the players the club has acquired thus far, it's hard to see how Doncaster will actually make money via the "shop window" approach.
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Blue Nile adopted a virtual model, in which it provides a shop window for suppliers yet does not put any of its own capital at risk.
To reach for the salad bar rather than the hamburger counter, or to turn away from merchandise in a shop window something difficult for most of us to change.
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The multicoloured balls in bubble-gum machines could be picked up in a girl's dress, or the red of a stiletto shoe matched with the frame of a shop window.
We can gain a bit of experience in our squad and, at the same time, Maurice can put himself in the shop window as he looks to progress his career.
Christmas in Florence Not only is the city wonderfully deserted at this time of year, but the lights that adorn every shop window give the place an almost magical feeling.
Not only are all of Idealab's start-ups focused on the Net in one way or another, but the Internet also serves as shop window, marketing and distribution channel, and technological foundation.
And if you walk through a well-to-do place like Teddington, you can see children's T-shirts in the shop window with the only slightly ironic slogan "My daddy's rich and my mother's good looking".
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The costume galleries have long suffered from cramped quarters and often lifeless installations behind glass panes, which make the garments look more like clothes in a shop window than works of art.
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That said, even if Doncaster never gets any kind of revenue split for offering its shop window services, manager Dean Saunders still gets the benefit of guys he would never otherwise be able to afford.
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After the Serbian car number plates and dinars of Serb north Kosovo, the large number of cars with Kosovan (KS) number plates and the shop window price tags in euros (Kosovo's currency) come as a surprise.
"We put them in the shop window, we give them the opportunity to play, then, if another club comes in for them, we split the revenue, 40% to us, 60% to the selling club, " Willie McKay told the Guardian.
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Yet it is often tiny merchants, such as mom-and-pop businesses, hobbyists and individual traders, who have been among the first to discover how to use the Internet as a cheap and profitable shop window to the rest of the world.
Thus inspired, Michtom duly created a stuffed bear cub, and he put it in his shop window, accompanied by a sign that read "Teddy's bear", having already sent an earlier version to Roosevelt, who promptly gave him permission to use his name.
Shakthar is in the last 16 of the Champions League it takes on Borussia Dortmund later this month and there is no better shop window for a player to establish himself as a superstar and persuade buyers to kick in a few extra million.
Lord Haskel protested that there were suppliers who had "no wish to use the logo... no wish to use the Olympic rings" but wanted to "use the Olympics as a shop window for the products... which they have supplied, to go out and get further orders from other countries".
Hebrew lettering was stenciled on the butcher shop window and engraved on the lintels of the small neighborhood synagogues, but nowhere else (other than at the cemetery) did one's eye chance to land on the alphabet of the prayer book rather than on the familiar letters of the native tongue employed all the time by practically everyone for every conceivable purpose, high or low.
Robert Wilson, an American set designer, and Switzerland's Ugo Rondinone created window displays for the shop.
Mantel had been quoted as saying the duchess was a "shop-window mannequin" whose only purpose was to breed.
West Berlin's shop-window prosperity was bought at the price of gross corruption, as crooks and opportunists competed for the lavish West German subsidies.
Behind the shop-window of Twitter and Facebook accounts are more limited private chat-rooms where terrorist leaders from around the world exchange information and tactics.
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