Word: consumerized
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That situation set antitrust alarm bells ringing when AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon all raised their pay-per-use costs of sending a text message from 10 cents to 20 cents over the past three years. That prompted Senator Herbert Kohl, the Wisconsin Democrat who chairs the Senate...
This is a sea change in the mind-set of Americans and represents the rise of what we're calling the ethical consumer. Just as our DNA as Americans contains a commitment to volunteerism and civic participation, there is a new social contract evolving between many Americans and businesses about...
I'm wondering if you would talk just a little bit to that idea of that being this kind of new civic engagement that people have through what they buy, what they purchase, and the kind of choices, the consumer choices that they make. The President: Well, as I said...
According to a new TIME poll, more than 6 in 10 Americans have bought organic products since January. Lots of us have bought an energy-efficient lightbulb too. And it's not just the nature of the product but also its provenance that's prompting us to buy. Of the...
None of this would have happened without consumer demand. Nearly half of Americans in our poll said protecting the environment should be given priority over economic growth - and this comes in the midst of a recession and historic unemployment. And 78% of those polled said they would be willing to...