Relationships between smoking and drinking and the Consumer Involvement subscale «dissatisfaction» support suggestions by other authors that substance use might be an attempt to satisfy the unmet needs of more materialistic individuals.15, 17 However, we also found that smoking and drinking were most strongly associated with «brand awareness» (comprising items emphasising the importance of brand names, popular labels and being cool), and also with possession
of modern consumer goods.
The Core i7 - 6700K is often thought as quickest Intel chip, but performance seekers know the true limit
of modern consumer CPU power is found in the Extreme Edition, a special set of Intel hardware that runs on its own, separate chipset.
Manufacturing
of modern consumer goods — everything from televisions to refrigerators to electric cars as well — generally have supply chains spanning several continents, all being shuffled around by internal combustion engines.
Since the beginning of the 1980's, humanity has poured some 860 billion CO2 tonnes into the atmosphere; atmospheric CO2 levels keep climbing (see yellow boxes); yet, the average tropical atmospheric temperature has essentially not budged (see red dotted baseline) over 3 + decades
of modern consumer / industrial human emissions.
Clive Hamilton argues that the paradox
of modern consumer life is that we are deprived of our inner freedom by our very pursuit of our own desires.
Inspired by Thomas Nast, Honoré Daumier, T.S. Sullivant, and James Gillray, among others, his drawings offer a satirical critique
of modern consumer culture, and frequently seem to possess an outsider's perspective — a self - conscious stance which Crumb often relates to his personal life.
It also includes embodiments, in the form
of modern consumer goods, of the legendary 360 Arab pagan gods that Mohammad anciently banished from the holy precincts of Mecca's Ka'abah.
Inspired by Thomas Nast, Honoré Daumier, T.S. Sullivant, and James Gillray, amongst others, his drawings offer a satirical critique
of modern consumer culture and seem to possess an outsider's perspective — a self - conscious stance, which Crumb often relates to his personal life.
Inspired by Thomas Nast, Honoré Daumier, T.S. Sullivant, James Gillray, amongst others, his drawings offer a satirical critique
of modern consumer culture, and often seem to possess an outsider's perspective — a self - conscious stance which Crumb often relates to his personal life.
The purchasing patterns and expectations
of the modern consumer make it a completely different animal.
Crowdfunding has been one of the defining features
of the modern consumer economy in the 21st Century.
The buy - baby - buy phenomenon
of modern consumer culture is not actually modern.
Because of the predilection
of the modern consumer to shop for products and services online, investment in SEO can not be matched for cost - effectiveness.
These gain their distinctiveness not from their rejection of the marketing approach in the name of religious faith but from their almost total integration
of modern consumer marketing with religion, producing what Virginia Stem Owens identifies as a range of prepackaged, certified Christian life - styles to meet one's particular demands and aspirations, with appropriate seminars available to show a person how to fit into that life - style.
The enormous choice and high — level functionality
of modern consumer form factors has led to a significant shift in the expectations professionals have of their corporate technology.
Now, while your website is never truly done, there are ways to make sure it meets the necessary requirements
of the modern consumer.
Ads featuring SpongeBob aren't going to cut it in the eyes
of the modern consumer, who has unfettered access to nutrition data online and a consciousness about the production and retailing of the items they buy.
The continuously evolving digital landscape is changing our entire thought process as business models adapt to fit the increasing demands
of the modern consumer.
It's tempting for dealers to resent the power
of modern consumers sitting in front of computer screens and arming themselves with automotive data before visiting dealerships, Koblenz says.
Online reviews have grown to play a big part in gaining social proof and the trust
of modern consumers.
In a rare instance of industry rebirth, electronics retailer CompUSA appears to have come back from the dead, with a new concept store that is more in tune with the needs
of modern consumers.
Not exact matches
It also sparked some understandable handwringing about
modern consumer culture, fast fashion and the real price
of an $ 8 t - shirt.
The results
of the study show that
modern retail involves integrating technology into the
consumer's online and digital shopping experience.
With the
modern consumer embracing IT more than ever before, there are plenty
of opportunities for entrepreneurs to introduce new functionality into the common household.
«The Sienna is super-reliable transport with all
of the
modern features an active, connected family would want,»
Consumer Reports wrote.
The decision,
of course, marks a cultural change in how
modern consumers get their jollies, as described by the Times:
Pantone describes its decision thusly: «As
consumers seek mindfulness and well - being as an antidote to the stress
of modern day lives, welcoming colors that psychologically fulfill the yearning for reassurance and security are becoming more prominent.»
This is largely due to an information - rich internet that has allowed younger generations to re-discover things that have been left behind in our
modern sea
of mass - produced
consumer products.
These
modern technologies promise significant increases in the speed and efficiency
of many kinds
of manufacturing, and are already allowing increasingly tailored products to heighten
consumer satisfaction.
Nowadays, online marketers are using various types
of analytics data and
consumer insights to dictate their strategies, but despite the overwhelming amount
of information that's available, many
modern marketing strategies miss their mark.
«In the 50 years since the advent
of modern day class action lawsuits, plaintiffs» lawyers have made millions
of dollars in fees from these suits while
consumers often receive little benefit,» the chamber said in a statement.
According to Brian Halligan, the CEO
of Hubspot and author
of the book Inbound Marketing: Attract, Engage, and Delight Customers Online, the way
modern consumers shop and make purchases has changed dramatically, and as such, businesses must adapt in order to survive.
-- Jerry Hum, co-founder and CEO, Touch
of Modern (
consumer products and services, three locations) No. 147 2016 Inc. 5000 rank 2,424 % 3 - year growth $ 81.2 M 2015 revenue
«The middle price point is very, very difficult,» says Edgar Blazona, owner
of San Francisco - based BenchMade
Modern, a custom - furniture store that sells directly to
consumers over the internet.
«The dialogue
of robos vs. humans or old vs. new really misses the richness
of what's going on, which is an entire industry re-inventing itself to be more
modern, more in line with what investors want to pay for, and to be more in line with the
consumer experiences
of today.»
Popular use cases include BI and Data Science on
Modern Data, like Elasticsearch, S3, Hadoop and MongoDB; Data Acceleration, making even the largest datasets interactive in speed; Self - Service Data, making data
consumers more independent and less reliant on IT; and Data Lineage, tracking the full lineage
of data through all analytical jobs across tools and users.
But these days, in an age
of globalization and ever more sophisticated
consumers, selling wine demands a
modern approach.
Mobile Broadband is perhaps the bedrock
of most
modern consumer technologies and services today.
In a recent interview with Karen Webster, Greenfield explained how Candid leverages a direct eCommerce business model as well as other technologies, many
of which were not available even three years ago, to provide an expensive service at an inexpensive rate and in a
modern, convenient fashion that meets the expectations and needs
of today's
consumers.
«Through the intense focus our 285,000 colleagues bring to helping people live healthier lives and helping make the health system work better for everyone, we have grown to serve more people in more ways than ever, including through innovative uses
of advanced technologies, data analytics, and
modern clinical approaches that improve quality, lower cost and advance
consumer and care provider satisfaction,» David S. Wichmann, CEO
of UnitedHealth Group, said in a conference call.
In the West, our
modern consumer society has now debased this concept to be the equality to buy and consume, to trade and to travel, to build up a life
of toys and trinkets.
Economics, at least in the classical and neoclassical forms that have dominated its
modern development, is a science that analyzes interactions as exchanges relevant to ends determined by
consumer preferences, such that the ends lie beyond the domain
of the inquiry.
Central planning and the lack
of incentive have produced agricultural shortfalls, industrial mismanagement, shoddy products, permanent shortages in housing and
consumer goods, economic collapse staved off only by Western credit, and a shockingly low standard
of living in what are supposed to be
modern industrial nations.
«The
consumer selects his new identity from the vast range
of moral possibilities that the
modern world throws up.
In such cases if we were enemies we should at least have respect towards each other after all we still in need
of each other in business, trades,
consumer market Goods... God knows what else for centuries that we might have exchanged no matter who were the real pirates or bandits to the other all through ancient and
modern history...
Many
modern media
consumers constantly attempt to find hints
of journalistic bias in the stories they see and read online.
But it may be imperative for Indians, who, arriving late in the
modern world, are confronted with the possibility that economic growth on the model
of Western
consumer capitalism is no longer environmentally sustainable.
Fortunately, a large majority
of poor and religious Indians do not live within the
modern culture
of materialism; they are invulnerable to the glamour
of the CEO, the investment banker, the PR executive, the copywriter, and other gurus
of the West's fully organized
consumer societies.
They also remind us
of some unpleasant truths: that virtually all
of us in the
modern world are now mere
consumers of great urbanism rather than its producers; and that this earlier vision
of cities is now so far removed from the mindset
of the
modern world that the project
of reviving great urbanism may be one best regarded in terms
of generations if not centuries.
The first article by Schulz and Tonsor provides the reader with a description
of the predominant
modern swine production system using gestation stalls or crates — a system which many
consumer voices have criticized due to animal welfare concerns.