Sentence examples for Consumer-driven culture from inspiring English sources

Asia's banks, as well as societies, are new to a consumer-driven culture.

In the final room, where contemporary images of Mancunian life cover almost ever inch of wall space, from a joyous Pride march to a rather downbeat St Patrick's Day parade, the spectacular mundanity of our relentlessly consumer-driven culture is writ large.

The conditions in this case are an unregulated free-market within a materialistic, consumer-driven culture.

As a commercially-minded fellow who understands the pitfalls of a consumer-driven culture and the importance of production, I decided to spend a day as an apprentice with a cook in the Colombian village of San Agustin.

Growth will be driven by rising personal incomes, corporate restructuring, financial sector liberalisation and the further development of a more consumer-driven, credit-oriented culture.

"I think what's going on is a product of the consumer-driven nature of this culture and the need to compete for people's time and attention," said Jack Wertheimer, provost and professor of American Jewish history at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.

In December 2007, Annie released The Story of Stuff, a hit 20-minute web film that takes viewers on a provocative and eye-opening tour of the often hidden environmental and social costs of our consumer driven culture.

Shira Golding, 30, a graphic designer in Ithaca, N.Y., said that as a child of the 1980s, "I never thought of bartering — our culture was very consumer-driven".

As Jericho Apo, digital strategist at The Story Of Stuff, a community of people working to change our "consumption-crazed culture," told HuffPost, we still live in a very consumer-driven economy, heavily influenced by materialism.

Consumer-driven food and beverage innovation, which designs products to meet consumer needs, can be achieved through a company culture focused on the consumer and by applying appropriate consumer input throughout the innovation process.

Furthermore, technological determinism in American cold war political culture endowed agribusiness with lasting discursive power that signified and too often justified the seeming inevitability of a consumer-driven, technologically determined, corporate capitalist logic of food production and distribution.