‘Shopping’ Archives
Consumer Safety
Consumer Safety Ralph Nader’s Unsafe at Any Speed (1965) warned Americans that many “things” could kill as surely as people. Freedom to consume entails risks which have become hotly debated in the litigious ambience of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century where not only faulty products—flammable children’s pajamas, unsafe [...]
Consumer Preferences
Consumer Preferences Consumer preferences represent the building block for assessing the value of any good or service relative to another. Once determined, a consumer may or may not wish to reveal a willingness to pay for an item given the asking price. Of course, assessing value is not always straightforward for the consumer. It can be an [...]
Consumerism
Consumerism The term consumerism may be understood using four distinct interpretations. These interpretations are as follows: (1) the movement within society and government to protect consumers from defective or otherwise unsafe products; (2) the demand-side economic theory (usually associated with Keynesian economics), which states that [...]
Consumer Activism
Consumer Activism Consumer activism is a term that describes a variety of disparate movements that seek to influence the behavior of companies through activities ranging from providing information to boycotts, pickets, and litigation, with the aim of forcing companies to act in a way that benefits the perceived interests of consumers. [...]
Consumerism in America
Consumerism While all societies consume, mass consumption has taken on intense and multiple meanings within American society since the nineteenth century when advances in mass production and a continental market demanded a new mass consumer. This new person was fostered by newspaper advertising and department stores that channeled new [...]
Are You a Shopaholic?
Are You a Shopaholic? Turns out 1 in 20 of us -- women and men alike -- can't control the urge to spend. Learn what drives this destructive behavior. Is your closet overflowing with never-worn clothing, the price tags still waving in the breeze? Is your attic bulging with boxes and boxes of shoes that have never touched pavement? Do you buy [...]
Harrods
Harrods: A Different World Welcome to Harrods - a different world for a million reasons. Harrods is the largest store in Europe with goods displayed in 60 windows and 5.5 hectares of selling space. In one year over 14 million purchases are made in the 214 departments where you can buy anything from a pin to an elephant - if you can convince the [...]
