Instead of concentrating on cars and trucks, particularly trucks, in the U.S., Nasser focused on business fads, such as globalism (buying billions of dollars' worth of businesses around the world) and consumerism (buying up car dealers here, thus putting the company into competition with its own independent dealers).
Firth, the wife of Colin Firth by the way, gave the example of conscious consumerism, buying some expensive Stella McCartney trousers, so well made she'd be wearing them for a long time.
For a punk, it's always better to remake something old than support consumerism and buy something new.
However, Hunt cautions against taking children window-shopping or over-exposing them to stores, which may encourage consumerism and impulse buying.
Then there's ShopSmart, a wonderful potpourri of smart consumerism, be it buying slow cookers, coffee machines, fitness machines, televisions, computers, clothes, light beer, you name it.
As for the supposedly final season, he said it would be "about money, materialism, buying stuff, consumerism".
Such projects included recycling, green consumerism (also known as "buying green"), and the establishment of alternative communities, including self-sufficient farms, workers' cooperatives, and cooperative-housing projects.
Let me say that Wirecutter has never been about promoting consumerism — we're about buying the right things to fit your life and will last you a while, so you don't have to think about them.
Indeed, environmentalism itself has become just another practice of consumerism, a matter of buying Audubon memberships, Ansel Adams calendars, and 'biodegradable' plastic bags with one's Sierra Club credit card.
We may be biologically hard-wired to worship at the altars of consumerism this holiday season, buying gifts with expectations of what we will receive in return, but those people who say they regularly experience the love of God are much more likely to reach out beyond family and friends to serve humanity, according to a national survey of more than 1,200 adults.
Phase one was triggered by the rise of fast-fashion consumerism, when we bought in bulk at low cost and discarded clothes quickly.
