According to a poll recently featured in ShopSmart, the shopping magazine from the publisher of Consumer Reports, 60 percent of women have bought something on a whim in the past year. With the average cost of their most recent impulse purchase at $108, falling off the wagon is not always cheap.
The impulse-shopping poll was conducted by the Consumer Reports National Research Center. It consisted of a telephone survey of a nationally representative probability sample of telephone households, with 1,016 interviews completed among women aged 18-plus...
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