This is the 21st-century paradox: Even as political democracy has become the intellectual default mode for much of the world, the private sector usually trumps the public one when it comes to accommodating consumer choice.
The number of slaughterhouses in the city has increased in recent years to accommodate consumers of halal (Islamically sanctioned) meat.
"We think the law needs to accommodate consumers' need to listen to their own CD collections online in a digital form".
Mr Shelby argues that this could push banks to accommodate consumers at the expense of the banks' safety and soundness.Optimists note that Messrs Dodd and Shelby have broken off talks before, only to resume them within weeks.
The plain truth, some retail analysts say, is that businesses of all sorts have no choice but to accommodate consumers who are trained to do research on their own — and prefer doing so.
And in many countries, including America, utilities are having to accommodate consumers who also produce energy, typically from solar panels, and sell it to the grid regardless of whether it is needed or not (see article).This was a trivial obligation a few years ago.
Wireless carriers say they are running out of spectrum to accommodate consumers' growing hunger for mobile data, but some scientists and engineers say the so-called spectrum shortage is just a way for the companies to protect themselves from competitors, reports Brian X . Chenon Wednesday in The New York Times.
Hopefully once a standard has been agreed upon, it will accommodate consumers' needs fully.
A new study suggests that even as automakers rush to accommodate consumers' mobile lifestyles by designing hands-free features into their products, drivers can still be dangerously distracted.
Street foods are mostly prepared in open-air public spaces either stationary or itinerant, either on foot or from mobile outlets, removable outlets, and fixed outlets without enclosed space by food vendors to accommodate consumers (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations 2016).
