Sentences with phrase «consumer backlash»

This suggests a massive consumer backlash against the cable companies, which often deliver poor quality pictures.

A subsequent consumer backlash saw the company's conventional yoghurt sales drop also.

How a bank makes money is only limited by their imagination and consumer backlash against increased fees and penalties.

Because smart public health activists have focused private - sector attention on the risk of consumer backlash against products that might harm children, and because cost - effective alternatives to BPA already exist.

Apple faced consumer backlash last year after it was forced to admit that it deliberately throttled performance of older iPhones to push customers into buying new and latest models.

«2K's Evolve saw immersive consumer backlash at launch for this reason, which hurt the game's long - term potential.»

Last year the B.C. Fruit Growers» Association passed a resolution against the introduction of GM fruit, stating concerns about consumer backlash and the difficulty of protecting organic growers from contamination.

Some might argue that I shouldn't be surprised by the company's bold - faced confidence in the face of an expected consumer backlash.

«If that comes to pass, it is hard to see how Samsung would receive much consumer backlash,» said Avi Greengart, research director at GlobalData.

The ensuing consumer backlash prompted Toyota to close all its «The Camry Effect» promotional Twitter accounts and issue an apology.

The move faced enormous consumer backlash and the original formula — renamed «Coca - Cola classic» — returned to stores within weeks.

The most notorious fee was the debit card usage fee, which barely got off the ground before banks axed it in the face of a major consumer backlash.

Uber is now facing a massive PR crisis, an even more massive consumer backlash and — perhaps most worryingly, for its long - term viability — an increasingly entrenched reputation as a lousy place to work.

The apparel start - up Everlane, for instance, is betting that it can capitalize on consumer backlash to retailers» ever more vaguely underhanded tactics.

In the months following the tragic factory collapse and the subsequent consumer backlash, we monitored Primark's performance amongst consumers.

The industry has not been supportive, because they feel we already have good non-browning apples and the potential consumer backlash and concerns about pollen contamination were unknown.

And this led to a big consumer backlash.

Continued consumer backlash against GMO foods and herbicides put a dark cloud around Monsanto.

Still, as a vice stock, liquor doesn't face the same consumer backlash seen in tobacco companies and sales are almost certain to grow between 2 % and 4 % a year over the long - run.

This is a very dangerous assertion for a $ 23 - billion pet food market that heavily depends on emerging nutritional trends to drive growth — one that could very well inspire consumer backlash if it is echoed enough in the media.

An ad test through Google Home by Disney in 2017 faced immediate consumer backlash.

The company had found there was demand — perhaps more demand, in fact (and definitely less consumer backlash)-- for the software toolkit it had built along the way to craft the narratives between children and their toys.

They later reversed this stance following consumer backlash and a mass exodus of customers moving their BTC to other exchanges where their BCH would be honored.

Regarding if this is a sign that Microsoft Movies & TV is shifting gears or downsizing, it is likely premature to speculate, but Microsoft should get ahead of this story before consumer backlash reaches a fever pitch.

It stands to reason that Amazon would put a lofty price tag on all of those potential eyeballs, but Amazon's uncertainty and the risk of consumer backlash has made some of the anonymous advertising executives AdAge spoke to a bit wary: «It's kind of an expensive buy to not get a guaranteed audience and measurement.»

Corbin, author of Preventing BrandSlaughter: How to Preserve, Support, and Grow Your Brand Asset Value, shares two cautionary tales of prominent businesses who failed to uphold brand integrity and faced consumer backlash.

The two big liabilities you must assess are your dependence on government contracts and your vulnerability to consumer backlash.

Uber said it was not, and has since apologized for any misunderstanding, but the consumer backlash had continued.

Of course, the formula doesn't always work; EA pulled in - game purchasing out of its Star Wars Battlefront II game last fall after facing a consumer backlash.

The data troubles and consumer backlash has exposed Facebook in a way that strikes at the heart of its business.

The consumer backlash against sugar has initiated a shift in soft drink preferences away from high - sugar categories, such as carbonates and juice, and towards those perceived to be healthier, such as packaged, flavored, or enhanced waters.

: Amanda Banfield, managing director of Australasia for Mondelez International, the parent company that owns Cadbury, says the company is expecting a consumer backlash.

However, as the consumer backlash against carbonated soft drinks grows, CCA is struggling to convince some retailers to stock new products.

Anti-sugar soft drinks company Nexba expects to triple sales in 2017 - 18 to beyond $ 10 million after securing a distribution deal with Woolworths to stock the products in all 960 of its supermarkets as a consumer backlash against sugar builds.

Due to damning medical research and consumer backlash, companies slowly but surely began eliminating them.

Thanks to consumer backlash, outsourcing by U.S. companies has declined, and all indications are that it will continue to do so.

There will obviously be some consumer backlash, but Scribd needed to do this to stay alive.

The consumer backlash was predictable and could cost Amazon up to $ 5 billion per year in lost revenue.

Data Conversion Laboratory initially spoke to GoodEReader in an interview in December about the status of poorly formatted ebooks and how those titles are affecting the market as a whole, so it should come as no surprise that DCL can project on how poorly formatted or converted digital textbooks can negatively impact education, possibly going so far as to cause a consumer backlash against electronic reading if the formatting of required reading material is subpar.

Second, as the article I linked pointed out, the agency model (along with higher prices and consumer backlash) came into effect in April, and that could explain the large dip in April.

Loblaw Cos. says it has no plans to cap the number of gift cards it issues to Canadians as a make - good gesture to battle a consumer backlash to its bread price - fixing scandal.

Following Unity's massively troubled launch and consumer backlash the DLC is being offered free to everyone.

With the launch of Star Wars: Battlefront 2, we saw predatory «pay to win» progression systems that fundamentally affected the game, so much so, that even before the game got its full release, EA was forced into pulling down in - game purchases due to consumer backlash and, in some cases, government bodies threatening legal action.

After EA's recent changes to Battlefront 2 as a result of consumer backlash, they've tried to assure investors that it won't affect how well the game performs.

Eventually Microsoft caved in to consumer backlash about having a sensor watching their every move even when the console is supposedly sleeping, so the company said okay, the motion detecting sensor can be turned off in the system settings.

As well as a consumer backlash, Pachter indicated that GameStop — which he sees as the biggest potential loser in this scenario — would simply refuse to carry the console.

The «consumer backlash» from blocking secondhand games would be huge, Pachter said.