You might further assume that Fiji Water, which comes from an aquifer in the South Pacific, would be in particularly bad shape: it is a regular target of scorn in those accounts, cited to underscore eco-conscious consumers' discomfort (or disgust) with something shipped halfway around the planet that also happens to come out of your kitchen tap.
Recent works [3, 9 14] considered consumers' discomfort costs and aimed to jointly minimize the consumers' billing and discomfort costs, by assuming some utility functions.
We develop an algorithm that assigns temperature set-points (reference temperatures) to price ranges based on the consumer's discomfort tolerance index.
Condemnation of meat is based on either the health concerns that may occur if the meat finds its way to consumers or the discomfort with which consumers of meat may have with eating meat infested with liver flukes or Stilesia hepatica and other parasitic cysts.
The promising results shown for Perilla extract, a food grade ingredient, could benefit consumer with GI discomfort and patients suffering from GI diseases.
Opec's 12-member group has largely controlled the global price of crude oil for the past 40 years, but the US's discovery of shale oil and gas has dramatically shifted the balance of power, to the apparent benefit of consumers and the discomfort of petrostates from Venezuela to Russia.
Charles Golvin, an analyst at Forrester Research, said consumers could experience some discomfort in their use of smartphones if Samsung and other manufacturers are forced to design around certain basic functions to avoid violating Apple's patents, though he believes the decision will prod them to innovate.
This has been a source of great discomfort for consumers.
Kelly Conway thinks he can ease the discomfort, for companies and consumers, and he is betting his 11-year-old business on it.
Smart-gun entrepreneurs also have to overcome consumer skepticism, with some gun owners expressing discomfort with digital technology and fears about possible malfunctions – such as the gun failing to fire in a crucial moment of self-defense.
