The term "consumer commodities" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to items purchased for personal use, as in the following example sentence: "The store had a wide variety of consumer commodities on offer."
Where the expansion of citizenship constructed an ethos of mutuality, commerce has reduced us to consumer commodities to be exploited and defrauded.
If we're going to slaughter beasts, then we should eat beasts as beasts, head to toe, rather than turning them into neatly packaged filets, treating them as objectified consumer commodities.
Now three decades old, the unused vacuum cleaners still bristle with the glory of newness, though the sculpture's beatification of consumer commodities tastes even sourer in our more ecologically minded age.
The pastoralists, through a well-articulated seasonal migration cycle, managed to successfully share grazing, hunting and fishing areas, in addition to trading and bartering consumer commodities inside what they called 'peace markets'.
Thanks to an insidious partnership between Google and the National Security Agency NSAA) that grows more invasive and more subtle with every passing day, "we the people" have become little more than data consumer commodities to be bought, sold and paid for over and over again.
Salt stock is not a consumer commodity.
The show illustrates how much rock changed between the late 1960s, when it was on the leading edge of culture, and the 1980s when it became a consumer commodity.
ROSE ANN DeMORO Executive Director National Nurses United Oakland, Calif., April 25 , 2011To the Editor: Regarding the notion of bringing market forces to bear on the Medicare cost problem, we have no instance of the workability of such an idea, even if it were not inimical to our values to treat medical needs as just another consumer commodity.
Even worse than how prepubescent shaving makes you look is that it makes you complacent in the corporate conspiracy to turn the way we look into a consumer commodity.
Miners were under pressure after the downbeat data from China, a key consumer of commodities.
Given China is a key consumer of commodities, this was unhelpful for mining shares.
