Video game industry executives and analysts — and, more important, consumers — say the devotion to the hobby is driven by a peculiarity of games: they can be addictive.
Rising prices for organic groceries are prompting some consumers to question their devotion to food produced without pesticides, chemical fertilizers or antibiotics.
Authenticity is practically doctrine for the Seattle outfitter C. C. Filson, which has become a best-kept secret among the fashionable while remaining an object of near religious devotion to its sporting consumer core.
Yet, even at this hour, leaders on both sides of the Atlantic seem determined to handcuff fiscal policies — the main tools that can increase jobs, consumer demand and economic growth — with an unquestioning devotion to rigid austerity.
Still, it appears CBS made a good move by betting on fans' devotion to the franchise, as U.S. consumers spent $6 million in the app in Q3 2018, up 50percentt from the $4 million spent in Q3 2017.
Several stories mention that Warhol's choice of soup cans reflected his own avid devotion to Campbell's soup as a consumer.
It plays on our relation to power, gender politics, and even technology: Videos and audio tracks take away the consumer's autonomy; computers seize control of minds, inspiring slavish devotion and even love..
What is striking -- and poignant -- about the lowriding movement is the tender devotion lavished on what would otherwise be the throwaways of consumer car culture.
Like most of his business ideas, before and since, the project showed both a fanatical devotion to detail and a hazy grasp of what ordinary consumers might pay for.
