Sentences with phrase «wary consumers»

For this reason, many builders look to third - party validation such as the National Green Building Standard (NGBS) as an assurance for wary consumers.

«A sense of humor can help alleviate the cloying earnestness that has become a well - recognized signpost of greenwashing for wary consumers,» says Marty McDonald, founder and creative director of egg which specializes in sustainable brands.

With today's economic concerns and wary consumers wanting to reduce potential risks associated with «exotic» mortgage loans, FHA home loan programs offer stable loan terms at competitive mortgage rates.

That's because wary consumers are more prone to trust recognized names with their information than unfamiliar newcomers.

Heck, I've even heard that Aliens: Colonial Marines is downright average after the patches, but the damage in the public mind's eye was done upon the initial release, and the only thing SEGA earned was the trepidation of a wary consumer.

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If consumers are tapped out or wary of taking on more debt, then bank credit can be expanded to the moon and households will not borrow more money.

Consumers today are naturally wary.

But consumers should be wary of treating a kosher label as a guarantee of superiority.

Online lenders have not been feeling a lot of love lately, at least not from regulators and other consumer watchdog groups who are wary of the industry.

In fairness, consumers may be wary to trust companies in the space because they have yet to interact with the cars in a real - world setting.

Content paywalls don't seem to be effective, and consumers are wary of sponsored content that lacks credibility.

Microsoft must also convince employees in its consumer divisions, who are wary of the company's full - throated embrace of enterprise technology, that it can still innovate in the products that made it a household name.

Consumers are well aware of the misinformation out there and wary of the content and claims they come across.

Consumers are understandably wary of giving up their purchase rights when there's no guarantee they'll get anything in exchange.

Although imported food products, baby products and cosmetics are sought after in China because consumers are wary of the quality and safety of many domestic brands, not every product is guaranteed to be successful.

Canada's controversial but politically untouchable dairy supply management system can be reformed, while addressing the concerns of wary politicians, consumers tired of overpaying for milk and...

The Janrain survey results show that consumers are still somewhat wary of providing personal information to online businesses without knowing more about how it will help to improve their website experience:

Yet even as more merchants are embracing Bitcoin, consumers may still be wary of transacting with the virtual currency.

Consumers should be wary of companies that will work on credit without asking them any questions about their current financial situation and goals.

To make things worse, Canada's economy has been hit hard by falling oil prices, and investors remain wary of a Canadian housing market that has shown signs of becoming a bubble, as well as rising consumer debt rates.

Although mobile payments are more convenient and arguably more secure than carrying physical credit cards, both retailers and consumers remain wary.

«Credit card companies are wary before and after a bankruptcy discharges,» said Katie Ross, education and development manager for American Consumer Credit Counseling.

Most consumers are rightly wary of a product they have never heard of or a company they do not trust.

Considering this, coupled with my observation that the number of personal cars has significantly increased since my last visit to Beijing in 2007, I am wary of the efficacy of emission control at the consumer level.

While dark chocolate has been praised by health experts for its high content of flavanol antioxidants, consumers should be wary of automatically assuming that the higher the cacao percentage, the more flavanols the chocolate contains.

Yet consumers are also becoming increasingly wary of additives or E numbers in their food or beverages.

I think as consumers we should be wary of avoiding a certain product simply due to skepticism — it's one thing to recommend not using a product because it has scientifically been proven to cause harm; it's another to recommend not using a product because of subjective reasons, such as how creepy the fact is that X. campestris is the culprit of black rot on crucifers (or personal opinions of the FDA)... yes, X. campestris is used to ferment sugars to produce xanthan gum, but the fact that it causes rotting of crucifers is unrelated (and doesn't suddenly make xanthan gum harmful).

Be wary of packages marked natural, farm - fresh, etc. — these are unregulated terms just meant to grab consumer's attention.

«Consumers, prospective students and their families, should be wary of rankings,» said Zilvinskis.

But Denby acknowledges that consumers who are already wary of genetically modified foods might be hesitant to embrace a bioengineered beverage.

Second, when it comes to food, consumers are wary of technologies they don't understand.

Wary of prescription medicines, some consumers prefer «natural» products, such as herbal supplements that they believe are safer and gentler.

And though the FDA does continues to monitor the industry — in 2007, the agency warned three manufacturers that their red yeast rice products were unapproved drugs — the woolly marketplace for supplements should make consumers wary.

All this egg protein goodness doesn't come cheap and consumers should be wary of buying low - grade egg protein powders.

Reading some of the reviews, consumers should be wary that the company might automatically place additional fees on customers credit cards, especially if they are getting Lipozene through any free trial offer

Some cold sufferers have been wary about using zinc since the Food and Drug Administration warned consumers to stop using Zicam nasal sprays and swabs, which contain zinc, after numerous reports that some users lost their sense of smell after using the product.

But «despite the growing interest among consumers, sleep professionals have been wary of incorporating these devices in treatment,» they added.

In China, consumers are naturally wary of B2C e-commerce, due to unreliable information and the proliferation of knock - offs.

From the very beginning of digital lending through libraries and personal consumer shares, publishers have been wary of the implications of ebook lending.

When companies like 24Symbols first launched in 2010, publishers were still wary of how their authors were going to be fairly compensated for letting consumers have unlimited access to their books.

Another factor that consumers have to be wary of is that the Grid 10 also comes with an OS that is a lot different from the Android that we have come to know.

While some of that rests on the shoulders of consumers who were not sure they were going to get the value of paying a flat - fee for the ability to read books, it was also the publishers who were wary of turning over their authors» works without a clear understanding of how this was going to be profitable for them and for their authors.

If the Court and the Judge clearly indicate that they will not stand for abuse of power that hurts consumers, then Amazon is going to be wary.

So I'm wary about any argument that turns on lower prices being good for the consumer.

This is why consumers should be wary of signing up for retail and department store credit cards, says Dan Barnabic.

Additionally, consumers can be proactive in working with a specific lender by being wary of certain activities.

Be wary of consumer finance companies like Westlake Financial, Credit Acceptance Corp and Santander.

Consumers who carry a credit card balance should be particularly wary going forward, as most variable rate cards are pegged to the prime rate and many charge rates of 18 percent or more.

When paying off overdue bills, consumers must be wary of debt - settlement firms, according to Darryl Dahlheimer, program manager for Lutheran Social Service Financial Counseling, a nonprofit advisory agency with 10 locations in Minnesota.

«Consumers should be wary of any company that claims it can eliminate or greatly reduce debt, especially if they ask for money in advance,» said Jessica Rich, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection said in an announcement at the time.