Stories tagged "consumers"

Oil prices are falling but manufacturers have not dropped oil-related price increases they made this year.

Certain kinds of research can help improve social problems, according to a new study. Participatory action research actively seeks to change the behavior or situation of the consumer.

There's a mini baby boom in the U.S., with a record number of babies born last year. Seeking Alpha looks for some money-making opportunities in the midst of all those diapers. (CNBC ran the same story earlier this month).

Ad targeting is coming to a store near you. In the latest effort to tailor ads to specific consumers, marketers are starting to personalize in-store promotions based on products the consumer recently picked off a shelf or purchased -- and in the near futu

Now anyone with a computer can compare hospitals to see how their death rates stack up.

The nutrition value of soft drinks is sometimes exaggerated by manufacturers who want consumers to perceive their products to be of special benefit.

I get free books in the mail every year. I don't have to review them, pay postage or do anything else with them. Uncle Sam sends them to me. These publications aren't exactly books you snuggle down with for a quiet afternoon, but they are very useful

It looks like there's a positive side to the economic slump after all: Consumers are quickly changing their spendthrift ways. During the second quarter, Americans lifted their savings rate to 2.6% from a pitiful 0.3%

As gas gets more expensive, people want to purchase smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles. Any company that wishes to remain profitable must listen and respond, and any company that refuses to listen to consumers does so at its peril.

The jump in oil and food prices and the decline of the housing market all happening at the same time seem a strange coincidence, not a development linked by cause and effect.