Word: consumerized
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But most designers?whether they work in fashion, fabrics, architecture or even, say, jewelry?make it their business, literally, to divine what consumers will want next. Can kid mohair become the new cashmere? Will tanzanite ever replace diamonds? Can consumer conscientiousness co-exist with the new luxury? Designers put forth...
Although it may not be evident at the local Wal-Mart yet, these forces may already be in play. Demand from China, along with other fast-growing emerging economies, has driven up the price of oil and a wide range of other commodities for the past several years...
The government and some economists blamed the jump almost entirely on sharply higher prices for meat and poultry, which surged 49% since mid-2006. Beijing maintains that the rise in food costs, which make up more than one-third of China's consumer price index, was largely the...
According to a recent article that appeared in The New York Times Magazine, American universities are now in the business of consumer satisfaction, “furnish[ing] their campuses with luxuries.” Supposedly, colleges now care less about students’ intellectual capabilities and potential; it is...
The commissioner for consumer protection in the European Union (E.U.) criticized the U.S. organization responsible for product safety and urged the two bodies to work together to enforce higher standards, in a speech Tuesday at the Center for European Studies (CES). “In the area of the governance...