Consumerism
With Television set costs down 17%, Black Friday buyers might locate ‘excellent deals’
Important Factors Regular Tv set selling prices are down almost 17% in the earlier calendar year, according to the client rate index. That may possibly translate to large discounts for shoppers on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, when merchants typically slash charges on TVs. However, offers won’t automatically all be the most economical of the […]
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‘It’s a slippery slope’: Most consumers underestimate monthly subscription costs by at least $100, study says
The amount of money you drop on subscriptions may be more than you realize, recent research suggests. More than half of consumers (54%) underestimate how much they spend monthly on subscriptions by at least $100, according to a survey commissioned by market research firm C+R Research. For 24%, the difference was $200 or more. On […]
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Here’s what people expect to spend more on as inflation continues to surge
Regular unleaded gasoline was $4.69 a gallon (cash) at a Houston Exxon Mobil station on June 9, 2022. Gas prices are breaching record highs as demand increases and supply fails to keep up. Brandon Bell | Getty Images News | Getty Images Americans are still grappling with the worst inflation in roughly 40 years, and […]
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Consumers spend an average $133 more each month on subscriptions than they realize, study shows
Jose Luis Pelaez Inc | DigitalVision | Getty Images There’s a decent chance you don’t have a good handle on how much your subscriptions are really costing you. Consumers’ offhand guess of how much they spend monthly on subscriptions averaged $86, according to a survey commissioned by market research firm C+R Research. Yet when asked […]
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Ice cream freezers to get ‘warmed up’ in trial by Ben & Jerry’s owner
According to Unilever, the industry standard for freezer temperatures in many markets stands at minus 18 degrees Celsius (around 0 degrees Fahrenheit). The temperature of freezers in the trials will be minus 12 degrees Celsius. Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images Unilever — which owns brands including Ben & Jerry’s, Magnum and Wall’s — […]
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Why ‘free’ shipping isn’t free
The big carriers such as FedEx, UPS and Amazon make lots of deliveries, and none of those packages are being shipped for “free.” “People like free shipping because the word free is very powerful, even if people know that it’s not really free because someone is paying for it,” Kara Buntin, owner of the Etsy […]
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