And in modern day consumer society everyone is considered to be middle class.

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.

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

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.

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

Consumers are loyal to certain brands.

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

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

The effect of falling oil prices on consumer spending.

Many oil producers built up huge reserve funds when prices were high, so when prices fall they will draw on their reserves to support government spending and subsidies ( ' , 补贴) for their consumers.

Manufacturers can produce consumer goods at a much lower cost.

Investing in research to find ways to adapt to consumers' needs.

Consumers, in the U.S. at least, are acting cautiously with the savings they're getting at the gas pump, as the memory of the recent great recession is still fresh in their mind.

Consumers will spend their savings from cheap oil on other commodities.

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

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.

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? Not necessarily, says economic researcher Sara Johnson.

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.

Today’s consumers want beautiful handcrafted objects to wear and to have for their home environment.

They often involve consumers in trying the craft themselves.

State arts councils help sponsor local arts and crafts festivals which draw crowds of tourist consumers.

Craftsmen have helped educate consumers to make wise choices.

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

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

Rachel Botsman, the author of a book on the subject, says the consumer peer-to-peer rental market alone is worth $ 26 billion

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.

Kodak's decision to file for bankruptcy（破产）protection is a sad, though not unexpected, turning point for a leading American corporation that pioneered consumer photography and dominated the film market for decades, but ultimately failed to adapt to the digital revolution.

Consumers who borrowed too much?

is but a dream for average consumers

And that is what put Mr Jobs on the right side of history, as technological innovation （创新）has moved into consumer electronics over the past decade.

As our special report in this issue (printed before Mr Jobs's death) explains, innovation used to spill over from military and corporate laboratories to the consumer market, but lately this process has gone into reverse

Many people's homes now have more powerful, and more flexible, devices than their offices do; consumer gadgets and online services are smarter and easier to use than most companies'ystems

Familiar consumer products are being adopted by businesses, government and the armed forces

It originates in the consumer market.

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

According to the same study, efforts to reduce consumption should focus on improving consumer awareness and behaviour.

The immediate cause for the collapse has been Britain's slide toward recession, which has cut into consumer spending.

The consumer was ultimately to be mentioned as well, especially by the likes of Dorothy Shaver, who could point to the sales figures at Lord & Taylor.

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.

It reflects a shift of their interest in consumer goods.

Well, my current research is really about consumer behaviour.

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.

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

Those dangers can be addressed with farmer and consumer education, he said, while the free water and nutrients from human waste can help urban farmers in developing countries to escape poverty.

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.

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

Mr.Wilhelm said the excess of labels made it difficult for businesses and consumers to know which labels they should pay attention to.

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.

It misled consumers to believe that its products had been certified by a third party.

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

It gave consumers the impression that all its products were truly green.

Farmers and consumers may be affected by harmful bacteria.

Consumers grow wild with products labeled green.

There is not any one-hit wonder, and there will not be one for years to come, said Gary Shapiro, president and chief executive of the Consumer Technology Association ( ' , CTA).

The Consumer Technology Association is the sponsor of the annual Consumer Electronics Show.

The Consumer Electronics Show in recent years has begun to focus more on the practical value than the showiness of electronic devices.

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

Scan the highlights of this year's Consumer Electronics Show ( ' , CES), and you may get a slight feeling of having seen them before.

Plain packaging would be another step in the reclassification of cigarettes from inviting consumer products to narcotics ( ' , 麻醉剂).

Many consumers wonder about the necessity of having their fitness monitored.

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 often hesitant to try smart-home devices because they are worried about compatibility problems.

Consumers are becoming more worried about giving personal information to tech companies to get customized products and services.

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

Companies are pushing it hard but make it almost overwhelming even to dip a toe in the water for the average consumer, because there are so many compatibility issues to think about.

But over the last couple of years, and in this one in particular, we are starting to see companies shift from what is the largest screen size, the smallest form factor or the shiniest object and more into what all of these devices do that is practical in a consumer's life.

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.

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 solutions that companies need to improve their services.

Are people suffering from gadget overload? Are they exhausted by the consumer equivalent of the brain fatigue—information overload—that is caused by constant updates of devices and online media?As you are probably aware, the latest job markets news isn’t good: Unemployment is still more than 9 percent, and new job growth has fallen close to zero.

Advertising informs consumers about the existence and benefits ofproducts and services and attempts to persuade them to buy them.

\There is not any one-hit wonder, and there will not be one for years to come,\ said Gary Shapiro, president and chief executive of the Consumer Technology Association CT.

A stronger relationship between the retailer/producer and the consumer isn't just about financial incentives.

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

But some companies are realizing that placing the burden of recycling entirely on the consumer is not an effective strategy, especially when tossing something away seems like the easiest and most convenient option.

Companies are pushing it hard but make it almost overwhelming even to dip a toe in the water for the average consumer, because there are so many compatibility issues to think about.

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.

However, despite 2 billion people worldwide already supplementing their diet with insects, consumer disgust remains a large barrier in many western countries.

Scan the highlights of this year's Consumer Electronics Show CES, and you may get a slight feeling of having seen them before.

So they get involved by looking at advertising and really critically assessing the consumer behaviour aspects of it and getting involved sometimes doing primary research.

The consumer was ultimately to be mentioned as well, especially by the likes of Dorothy Shaver, who could point to the sales figures at Lord&Taylor.

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

The report doesn't really say how that information would affect consumer buying decisions.

Their philosophy is that extending the life of a pair of jeans is not only great for the environment, but allows the consumer to get more value out of their product.

Yet, more and more businesses are thinking about how to reduce consumer waste.

The first and more important is the consumer's growing preference for eating out: the consumption of food and drink in places other than homes has risen from about 32 percent of total consumption in 1995 to 35 percent in 2000 and is expected to approach 38 percent by 2005.

Demand comes mainly from two sources: independent mom-and-pop grocery stores which, unlike large retail chains, are too small to buy straight from producers, and food service operators that cater to consumers when they don’t eat at home.

At any rate, this change will ultimately be acclaimed by an ever-growing number of both domestic and international consumers, regardless of how long the current consumer pattern will take hold.

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 Twitter and the social-news site Digg.

The way consumers now approach the broad range of factors beyond conventional paid media.

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

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.

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

Consumers passionate about a product may create “owned” media by sending e-mail alerts about products and sales to customers registered with its Web site.

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

Overdressed is the fashion world’s answer to consumer-activist bestsellers like Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma.

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.

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

First, consumers may take CSR spending as a “signal” that a company’s products are of high quality.

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

\Our products succeed when they become part of daily or weekly patterns,\ said Carol Berning, a consumer psychologist who recently retired from Procter and Gamble, the company that sold $76 billion of tide, Crest and other products last year.

Because electronic payments are immediate, they eliminate the float for the consumer.

From career to community and family, these contrasts suggest that in the aftermath of the searing Great Recession, those just starting out in life are defining priorities and expectations that will increasingly spread through virtually all aspects of Amer

Grade inflation—the gradual increase in average GPAs grade—point averages over the past few decades—is often considered a product of a consumer era in higher education, in which students are treated like customers to be pleased.

If we know we will overreact to consumer products or housing options when we see a happy face, we can take a moment before buying.

They're part of a bunch of celebrities starring in a new video for World Environment Day—encouraging you, the consumer, to swap out your single-use plastic staples like straws and cutlery to combat the plastics crisis.