Consumer

Happiness: The story of a truly happy experience as a consumer. When I was 18 years old, I was depending most of the time of my family to take me to the places I needed to go. For that reason, I needed to have my own transportation, before starting studies at ECU University. I decided to take more hours in my job to save more money to buy a reliable car. My dream car is a Honda Civic, color gray and with a sports look. I prefer to buy and not to have a lease. My parents have a very strong…

picture in 2007 due to the economic recession, and a big time reduction in consumer discretionary spending that needed that last bit of leverage to completely topple Circuit City in 2009. This allowed Best Buy to be a clear leader in the consumer electronics retail segment. However, Best Buy’s economic fortune ended up taking a hit with new competition like Wal-Mart, Radio Shack, and Costco that are also getting into the consumer electronic retail segment. This could be bad…

The Dangers of Corn In Michael Pollan’s The Consumer- A Republic of Fat, he presents the reader with insight of two incidences involving the mass production of a single crop that resulted in an epidemic. The first example took place about two hundred years ago in America when corn whiskey became everyone’s go-to beverage. The second is the current obese status in America today, and the presumed cause behind it. Pollan shows how it can be a detriment to society to be able to mass-produce a crop.…

RadioShack — once the go-to chain for consumer electronics — will shutter 1,000 stores during the Memorial Day weekend as it undergoes its second round of Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, the company announced Friday. RadioShack will continue to operate 70 brick-and-mortar stores across the U.S. as the retailer migrates most of its sales operations to its website, RadioShack said in a news release Friday. This round of closures does not affect the company’s 500 “dealers” — or franchisee-run…

real story behind the making of the product that is being bought. It could be a 14-year-old child who made the Mickey Mouse toy you leave by your bedside or the Disneyland sweater you are gifting your younger cousin for Christmas. While Western consumers “…worry about exposing their children to Chinese-made toys coated in lead [or any other harmful chemicals], Chinese workers, often as young as 16, face far more serious hazards” (Barboza). These children work long hours and come face to face…

indicators are Personal consumption, Government purchase, Private inventories, Paid in construction cost and Foreign Trade Balance. Other examples of a possible index are GPA (Grade Point Average) or the CPI (Consumer Price Index) The consumer price index is used to measure the prices of goods that consumers…

Imagine going to sleep at night and waking up in a new time era. For example, the 1950’s. What would your life be like? It would be very different from the structure of today’s world. One major change that an individual would experience a difference in would be their educational outlook and their career. In the past education, was not as prevalent as it is today and the dynamic of work has also changed. In todays world, work would be considered to have more collaboration, technology dependent,…

METHODS USED TO MEASURE PRICING AND AFFORDABILITY OF ‘HEALTHY’ FOODS IN AUSTRALIA AND ONE OTHER COUNTRY INTRODUCTION There is evidence that links food choice to food prices and affordability, this means that an individual’s dietary patterns is linked to his or her income (Lee et al. 2013). Brinkman et al. (2010) further explains that difference in food prices has greatly contributed to the global burden of overweight, obesity and an increase in non-communicable diseases (Cardiovascular…

their portion. Mental disorder stigma makes the relatives of the mental disorder people feel ashamed and wish to not have any relation with the patient. One patient was interviewed for a discussion paper about Discrimination Against Mental Health Consumers in Lebanon said: “My young brother was told I was in jail. The jail wasn’t seen to be as bad as a psychiatric hospital. I’ve never been to jail.” (Mental Health Commission, 1997). Because of stigma, it becomes common that family…

writer met with the consumer today at AFC home follow up since his last hospitalization visit. The consumer psych appointment at NSO was cancel and rescheduled for Monday, 03/06/17 at 2:30pm. The consumer was sitting in the living room on his computer looking up picture on his computer. During the visit at the AFC home the consumer was hearing voices but, we were able to redirect him back to his computer. The consumer was well groom with a little hallucination. However, the consumer therapist…