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The danger is that although some rules need to be updated to protect consumers from harm, existing rental businesses will try to destroy competition

J) The sharing economy is the latest example of the internet's value to consumers

Food labels may mislead consumers in their purchases.

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In the process he brought about great changes in computing, music, telecoms and the news business that were painful for existing firms but welcomed by millions of consumers.

Meanwhile, the number of consumers hungry for such gadgets continues to swell

"Strength, softness and thickness remain the leading indicators of toilet paper quality, with just a small proportion of consumers preferring more luxurious alternatives, such as those with flower patterns or perfume," said mintel analyst Jack Duckett.

And a number of oil-producing countries are trimming their gasoline subsidies and raising taxes, so the net savings for global consumers is not as big as the oil price plunge might suggest.

As a matter of fact, consumers expressed higher satisfaction with the one-star facilities, the lowest rated, than with the five-star ones.

As incomes rise among low-income consumers, the potential for further grain consumption is huge.

But doesn't the extra money in the pockets of those countries' consumers mean an equal loss in oil-producing countries, cancelling out the gains?

By contrast, a Danish tax on foods high in fats was abandoned a year after its introduction, amid claims that consumers were avoiding it by crossing the border to Germany to satisfy their desire for cheaper, fattier fare.

Consumers have more money in their pockets when they're paying less at the pump.

Earlier this morning, the office asked for the public's help to measure their speed results, saying consumers deserved to get the speeds they were promised.

For example, consumers could use appliances in a more efficient way by adjusting the time of cooking to the type of food.

Of course, consumers also want their orders prepared correctly and on that score, Oches says, accuracy is still really high.

Penny-pinching UK consumers choose cheaper products from discounters such as Aldi and Lidl rather than luxury alternatives.

PepsiCo is to spend billions of dollars to develop drinks and snacks and reformulate existing ones with lower sugar, salt and fat, as consumers demand healthier options and regulatory pressure intensifies amid an obesity epidemic.

The Healthy Choice product line was carefully tested with consumers before being introduced to the general public.

The name "Healthy Choice" was chosen for the positive implication it held for consumers.

We can't do much to alter sedentary lifestyles, but we can provide consumers with great-tasting products, low in salt, sugar and fat.

While cereal remains a firm favourite among breakfast consumers in the UK and US, a recent investigation into the sugar content of "adult" breakfast cereals found that some cereals contain more than three-quarters of the recommended daily amount of free s

While consumers are spending less on toilet paper, they remain fussy – in theory at least – when it comes to paper quality.

In mature, fully developed countries such as the UK, more-efficient farming practices and better transport, storage and processing facilities ensure that a larger proportion of the food produced reaches markets and consumers.

These should discourage retailers from wasteful practices that lead to the rejection of food on the basis of cosmetic characteristics, and losses in the home due to excessive purchasing by consumers

Consumers in developed countries throw away nearly half of their food purchases because they tend to buy in excessive quantities.

Apple stands to win as well, hooking more young consumers with decades of technology purchases ahead of them.

Short-term oil shortage drove American consumers to wait in long lines at gas pumps

Young people grow up without developing the skills to fix things around the house," says Richard Curtin, director of the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers.

Consumers who favor imported goods and services.

Poorer students are not always the best-informed consumers.

Immigrants provide cheap labor, lower the prices of everything from farm produce to new homes, and leave consumers with a little more money in their pockets

Granted, these producers'avings probably translate into lower prices at the grocery store, but how many consumers make that mental connection at the checkout counter

"There is a large potential for waste water agriculture to both help and hurt great numbers of urban consumers," said liqa Raschid-Sally, who led the study.

"This is really about trying to cut through the confusion that consumers have when they are buying a product and that businesses have when they are selling a product," said Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the commission.

A finding that was a bit surprising is that to consumers, the inner parts of high-tech devices do apparently matter.

A recent study graded more than 600 internet retailers on how easy it was for consumers to shop, buy, and pay.

And when it comes to the hyper-connected super-smart world that technology firms are painting for us, it seems that consumers are growing more uneasy about handing over the massive amounts of consumer data needed to provide the personalized, customized so

As consumers, we are very wasteful.

But now these segments are looking at slower growth curves – or shrinking markets in some cases – as consumers are not as eager to spend money on new gadgets.

By offering services to help expand the longevity of their products, they're promising quality and durability to consumers and receiving the reputational gains for being environmentally friendly.

Companies that have long focused on hardware now have to think of ecosystems instead to give consumers practical solutions to their everyday problems.

Consumers are becoming increasingly bored with what companies have to offer: A survey of 28,000 consumers in 28 countries released by Accenture found consumers are not as excited about technology as they once were.

Consumers are less concerned about safety in high-tech products than categories like fresh and processed food.

Currently, I teach consumer behaviour to undergraduates in their second year, and we look at all kinds of things in consumer behaviour and particularly how consumers are presented in advertising.

Farmers and consumers alike can choose whether or not to use whichever version prevails: "I'm giving people an option."

For other companies interested in reducing waste, helping the environment, and providing the sustainable lifestyles that consumers seek, here are some first steps for building a relationship with customers that focuses on recycling and restoring value to

For the most part, consumers control what happens to a product.

I'm also interested in how consumers operate online, and how that online behaviour might be different from how they operate offline when they go to the shops.

In a survey of 54 of the world's leading brands, almost all of them reported that consumers are showing increasing care about sustainable lifestyles.

It has partnered with DIY website ifixit to teach consumers how to repair their clothing, such as waterproof outerwear, at home.

It is clear that consumers don't always know what they are getting.

It's become so iconic that attempts to change its taste in 1985—sweetening it in a move projected to boost sales—proved disastrous, with widespread anger from consumers.

Joseph says his products are priced 10-20% above organic versions, but depending on the product chosen, compared to non-organic conventional yogurt, consumers could pay a premium of 30-50% or more for grass-fed.

Manufacturers of products that claim to be environmentally friendly will face tighter rules on how they are advertised to consumers under changes proposed by the Federal Trade Commission.

Markets always change faster than marketing, so we have to look at what consumers are doing.

Meanwhile, Macy's has simply struggled to lure consumers who are more interested in spending on travel or dining out than on new clothes or accessories.

So, despite all the talk about drone deliveries to your doorstep, all the retail executives expressing anxiety over consumers going online, and even a Presidential candidate exclaiming that Amazon has a " huge antitrust problem, " the Census data suggest

Some 55% of consumers, according to the report, said they are "more concerned about where high-tech components come from than where the product was assembled.

That seems to be what consumers are demanding, after all.

The first obvious one is that the pace of innovation is too fast for consumers.

The key thing about consumer behaviour is that it's very much about how consumers change.

Underwriters Laboratories issued a report last week that found 48% of consumers "feel high-tech manufacturers bring new products to market faster than people need them.

When choosing what products to buy and which brands to buy from, more and more consumers are looking into sustainability.

When this water is used for agricultural irrigation, farmers risk absorbing disease-causing bacteria, as do consumers who eat the produce raw and unwashed.

While the practice carries serious health risks for many, those dangers are outweighed by the social and economic gains for poor urban farmers and consumers who need affordable food.

You may have heard that Coca-Cola once contained an ingredient capable of sparking particular devotion in consumers: cocaine.

But consumers do have a choice.

Companies could be forced to consumers what information they hold and how many money they make form it.

Consumers could better protect their privacy.

Far from charging consumers high prices, many of these services are free users pay, in effect, by handing over yet more data.

Hod Lipson, a professor at Columbia University, said, "Food printing could allow consumers to print food with customized nutritional content, like vitamins."

Phone carriers and consumers need to work together to find ways of determining and communicating what is real.

The giants' success has benefited consumers.

With a new farm bill to be debated in congress, consumers must take a stand with young farmers.

And third, through a more diffuse "halo effect," whereby its good deeds earn it greater consideration from consumers and others.

Bob Liodice, the chief executive of the Association of National Advertisers, says consumers will be worse off if the industry cannot collect information about their preferences.

Competition law as presently interpreted deals with financial disadvantage to consumers and this is not obvious when the users of these services don't pay for them.

Consumers passionate about a product may create "earned" media by willingly promoting it to friend,and a company may leverage "owned" media by sending e-mail alerts about products and sales to customers registered with its Website.

first, consumers may take CSR spending as a "signal" that a company's products are of high quality.

If that happens, passionate consumers would try to persuade others to boycott products, putting the reputation of the target company at risk.

If this doesn't change, American businesses, communities, and consumers will be the losers.

Last Thursday, the French Senate passed a digital services tax, which would impose an entirely new tax on large multinationals that provide digital services to consumers or users in France.

Over the past decade, many companies had perfected the art of creating automatic behaviors — habits — among consumers.

Previous studies on CSR have had trouble differentiating these effects because consumers can be affected by all three.

Second, paper checks have the advantage that they provide receipts, something that many consumers are unwilling to give up.

Such hiJacked media are the opposite of earned media: an asset or campaign becomes hostage to consumers, other stakeholders, or activists who make negative allegations about a brand or product.

The same dramatic technological changes that have provided marketers with more communications choices have also increased the risk that passionate consumers will voice their opinions in quicker, more visible, and much more damaging ways.

The way consumers now approach the process of making purchase decisions means that marketing's impact stems from a broad range of factors beyond conventional paid media.

These labels encourage style-conscious consumers to see clothes as disposable一meant to last only a wash or two, although they don't advertise that一and to renew their wardrobe every few weeks.

Third, the use of paper checks gives consumers several days of "float" — it takes several days before a check is cashed and funds are withdrawn from the issuer's account, which means that the writer of the check can earn interest on the funds in the meant

Toyota Motor, for example, alleviated some of the damage from its recall crisis earlier this year with a relatively quick and well-orchestrated social-media response campaign, which included efforts to engage with consumers directly on sites such as Twitt

While the conversation around our environment and our responsibility toward it remains centered on shopping hags and straws, we're ignoring the balance of power that implies that as "consumers" we must shop sustainably, rather than as "citizens" hole our