In an interview with the Guardian, Duncan Smith welcomed this newspaper's research into the disturbances, carried out jointly with the London School of Economics, and argued that some of the looting and robbery was fuelled by an acquisitive consumer culture.
SmartThings, for example, has fostered a community of developers who have created apps for the platform, which could serve as a valuable jump start for an acquisitive consumer technology company looking to build its own smart home system.
"What people actually spend their money on in most instances are psychological differences, illusory brand images," he explained.At a time when national companies were aggressively jockeying for position among Americans a suddenly cash-happy and acquisitive bunch Dichter promised a way to influence consumers' brains.
But even a lethargic recovery has done little to curb an acquisitive streak that is ingrained in the consumer psyche.
Despite the country's notoriously tricky climate for outsiders — consider the private equity firm TPG's travails with its investment in Lenta supermarkets — Russia's nascent consumer market still holds attractions for acquisitive global companies.
Amazon announced 10 acquisitions in 2017, its most acquisitive year on record.
While a lot of people put this down to iPhone (and iPad) users being a more acquisitive and engaged lot, Gartner points to something else: consumers buy more apps when they are new users, and less when they have had their devices for a while.
That virtuous circle made the United States the world's economic behemoth, and created a society and a political discourse defined by a proudly acquisitive middle class — the United States' much admired and much maligned consumer culture.
Wall Street has been penalizing acquisitive companies like SunGard, which completed seven acquisitions in 2001.
Franklin suggests that in consumer-oriented societies, war and violence are the inevitable result of an acquisitive lifestyle that rejects caring and social justice.
I started to believe the articles, research and reports telling me that women over 50 are invisible, powerless, adverse to change, glum, cranky consumers, unsexy, and should step aside to make room for the infinitely more beautiful, desirable, hirable, acquisitive, and loveable younger generation.
