Sentences with phrase «time consumers become»

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Honestly, it's only a matter of time before it becomes clear that all the tracking devices, all the navigation devices, all the data - generating wearables of whatever stripe (just like all the content created by professional media publishers) will need to knuckle under and feed their results through Facebook's front door to the consumer, because that's where the consumer lives and that's where the data needs to be.

Furthermore, an engaged consumer is more likely to become a brand advocate and boost your sales over time through word of mouth marketing.

Certainly, there are roadblocks for brewers who are looking to combine beer and pot, but as marijuana legalization and decriminalization spreads to more states, and as consumer interest in new tastes and styles of beer grows, it's only a matter of time before the fusions become widely available.

Entrepreneurs have begun building their businesses around this desire for instant gratification, and as a result, consumers have become even more conditioned to expect real - time services that further feed this perceived need.

It has become the norm in the consumer space to be able access the information you need, when you need it, regardless of time or place.

But Apple has now become the focal point of that anger, which may be largely rooted in a lack of consumer awareness that phone batteries lose potency over time.

Real - time payments are increasingly becoming a priority for consumers as banking migrates online, according to Mike Kennedy, CEO of clearXchange.

With nearly 56 million people and little industry today, it is rich in potential and may in time become a thriving consumer market.

Around the same time we were building Stonyfield, a friend of mine and her husband started what became a hugely successful consumer goods company.

With aging boomers making up the majority of its most loyal customers, the coffee chain is keen on drawing in younger consumers, says Doug Hunter, author of Double Double: How Tim Hortons Became a Canadian Way of Life, One Cup at a Time.

«Thanks to the unique ecosystem we have in the city — which gives us access to talent, capital, forward - looking retailers and consumers — we've grown into a major brand in a very short period of time, becoming Europe's fastest growing loyalty and mobile payments provider.»

Switzerland is also similar to many countries in that digital media has become marketers» focus, as marketing experts realize that consumers are now spending more time online than reading magazines or watching TV.

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By putting a huge emphasis on customer service, Amazon made sure consumers trusted the site in its infancy, and over time, it has become a one - stop shop for (almost) every ecommerce shopper's needs.

At the same time, mobile has become the first advertising medium that lives with your consumer, and is rarely more than an arm's length away.

Retailers also have become more efficient at scheduling more workers to be on duty during times when consumer traffic peaks, and reducing staff during slower periods.

Target also simply failed to understand the Canadian consumer, and by the time the extent of that failure became evident, it was too late.

Consumers are spending more time playing games; they're also becoming more willing to make in - game purchases — spending real money to buy, say, new weapons for their fictional characters — enabling some companies to replace a dependency on new hits with a steady, recurring revenue stream.

But if the administration were to withdraw the U.S. from NAFTA, as President Donald Trump has hinted at numerous times, prices on consumer goods and services could become destabilized and begin to surge.

This laid the groundwork for the Pre-modern era, when voice and virtual assistants became available to consumers for the first time.

Wilson averred that it can take upwards of a few days to see bitcoins in one's account, which isn't a practical amount of time for those who want to witness digital currency become a day - to - day business and consumer function.

At the same time, the industry needs to become more consumer - centric, as well.

Survey evidence suggests that consumers became more concerned about employment prospects during the course of the year; the net balance of respondents to the Westpac - Melbourne Institute survey expecting lower unemployment fell sharply over this time.

Over time, General Assembly became less of a consumer facing business and transitioned into one that was serving primarily business clients — which means access to Adecco Group's over 100,000 businesses is a big boon to the company's continued expansion plans.

This striking transformation of life into lifestyle, the way in which the tools, garments, and attitudes specific to particular times and places become commodities to be marketed to anonymous and rootless consumers: they are the natural (if also banal) expressions of our normal nihilism.»

That is, we may ourselves become machines: consumers, robots, soldiers, students, categories a, b, c, and d — an image that has been with us in the utopian writer for some time now.

Most of the credit goes to the company's reputation for freshness during a time when consumers have become more scrutinizing in their demands for natural and wholesome foods.

As consumers become more time - pressed, they seek out food products that can provide them with speedy solutions to food preparation.

At one time it concentrated its efforts only in states west of the Mississippi, but today Annabelle Candy is working with other vendors to extend its distribution channels farther to give consumers across the United States a chance to become fans of its unique confections.

Home delivery will become more and more important to time constrained consumers, so developing a compelling offer should be high on their agendas.

Communicating Information: Label Legalities Once used simply to display basic product information, labelling has become far more sophisticated over time, and consumers are increasingly relying on them in the making of their purchasing decisions.

«Snacking has become a new way of life as consumers have less time to sit down for big meals,» said Rod Troni, Chief Marketing Officer at Snyder's - Lance.

As lifestyles become increasingly hectic and technology developments mean that many never truly «leave the office», for some consumers snacks provide a necessary energy boost as time restraints prevent them from consuming three main meals a day.

As consumers become increasingly health conscious and time poor, dietary supplements are expected to rise in popularity.

«For the first time, we asked consumers their reasoning behind choosing organics with 49 % of respondents claiming that they first purchased certified organics as they became aware of the impact food, fibre and cosmetics may have on their health.

A grassroots campaign saved the decrepit complex from becoming an office park, and instead infused the renovation with the spirit of the time and place, a heady idealism that set out to strengthen the relationship between farmer and consumer; emphasize a transparent, democratic process; encourage and protect new and niche businesses; preserve the market's history; and provide a safe haven for the lower - income residents.

But with consumers becoming much more eco-friendly and families moving away from TV and video game time towards more active play, wooden toys are making a comeback with good reason.

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But none of the products he worked on had a more dramatic impact on consumers than disposable diapers, which — along with such things as Bic pens and microwave ovens — have became a symbol of the culture of convenience that permeates most modern, time - pressed societies.

«(H) e wants to use the lieutenant governor's job as a pulpit, to become the state's de facto public advocate, particularly in support of consumer issues, Internet access and economic development zones,» the Times said.

While it will be some time before 3D printing becomes as widely available, precedents from music and film sharing platforms suggest that the more accessible content is made for consumers, the less likely they are to resort to illegal downloads.

The time to become an informed employment consumer is before you start working at the company.

«I have developed methods for chemical analysis that for the first time make it possible to identify fragrance compounds that have been exposed to air and thus become potent allergens in small amounts and that people may come in contact with in consumer products,» says Johanna Rudbäck at the Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg.

Khoury cautions consumers that even if the price of a whole genome sequence becomes reasonable for them, it is worth spending some time asking, in turn, what they are going to get from it.

In effect, these patients become lifetime consumers of medications that were expressly designed — and approved by regulators — to be used for a limited time only so they could get on with their lives.

This idea of streamlining your wardrobe and spending less time fussing over an outfit certainly resonates with the modern woman and extends beyond the look — it's about consumers becoming completely aware of the whole process, from design through production, through use, and through the potential to reuse.

And with the recent increase in consumer demand for mission - driven companies, now became the perfect time to launch it.

In a world where shopping online has become many consumers» preferred method, it was only a matter of time before Dior took the plunge.

«Delivering video directly to consumers is becoming vital to the media industry, and offering a compelling user interface and app experience is an important piece of this value chain,» Time Warner Investments managing director Scott Levine said in a statement.

It's also when the Disney Originals series becomes available, significantly expanding the 2.0 character roster, so we believe this is the best timing for the a la carte consumer.