#consumer

By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products. ↗

— Ellen Willis

#contained #continually #could #demand #easily

The Bush administration did stop filling the reserve in 2002 when it helped the oil industry. Now they should do it to help the consumer. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#bush #bush administration #consumer #did #filling

You swallow hard when you discover that the old coffee shop is now a chain pharmacy, that the place where you first kissed so-and-so is now a discount electronics retailer, that where you bought this very jacket is now rubble behind a blue plywood fence and a future office building. Damage has been done to your city. You say, ''It happened overnight.'' But of course it didn't. Your pizza parlor, his shoeshine stand, her hat store: when they were here, we neglected them. For all you know, the place closed down moments after the last time you walked out the door. (Ten months ago? Six years? Fifteen? You can't remember, can you?) And there have been five stores in that spot before the travel agency. Five different neighborhoods coming and going between then and now, other people's other cities. Or 15, 25, 100 neighborhoods. Thousands of people pass that storefront every day, each one haunting the streets of his or her own New York, not one of them seeing the same thing. ↗

— Colson Whitehead

#change #consumerism #individuality #loss #memories

The crisis in Europe has affected the U.S. economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer confidence, and pressuring U.S. financial markets and institutions. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#affected #business #confidence #consumer #consumer confidence

Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal. ↗

— Jon Johansen

#consumers #doing #law #legal #prevent

When you focus on the consumer, the consumer responds. ↗

— Alexander Wang

#focus #responds #you

Fairly early in my career, I had a passion for wine just as a consumer, and I started to learn about the whole process, starting with a piece of raw ground, and ending up with a work of art in a bottle. ↗

— Drew Bledsoe

#art #bottle #career #consumer #early

The price of imported oil in the US doubled between summer 2003 and summer 2005, reducing consumers' purchasing power by more than 1 per cent of gross domestic product. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#cent #consumers #domestic #doubled #gross

Given that you'll never be able to prevent copying, the question is, what can you do to minimize it? What can you do to make consumers happy enough with legitimate use of the system that they'll be willing to pay for it? ↗

— Edward Felten

#consumers #copying #enough #given #happy

Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers. ↗

— Cesar Chavez

#consumer #corporations #force #gets #given