As TV prices drop, consumers are less inclined to buy the insurance, Mr. Melich said.
As home prices continue to drop, consumers are taking a harder look at rent-to-buy options, in which potential homeowners commit to a multi-year lease with a future option to buy the property.
It's possible that Eminem alienated part of his fanbase with his Trump freestyle, but that can't account for such a steep sales drop; consumers are too fickle to abandon their favorite artist over one performance.
Residential construction is plunging, house prices are dropping, consumer spending is slowing and the economy shed 17,000 jobs in January, the first such decline since 2003.
Toys RR" Us Posts Loss, Lower Sales Toy-store chain Toys R UsUs blamed dropping consumer confidence after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, which forced it to scuttle advertising and promotional initiatives.
After several years of dropping consumer sentiment, Chipotle is starting to make customers happy again with a refreshing new menu, queso that isn't terrible, and a resurrection of trust that the food won't make them sick.
Last month, Healthy Child Healthy World and the Breast Cancer Fund announced that Campbell's Soup was moving away from BPA in its cans, in part due to dropping consumer demand and public campaigns to eliminate BPA from foods targeted at kids.
C2 MobShop Drops Consumers One of the handful of companies that offer group buying on the Internet, in which consumers pool their buying power to get goods at lower prices, is closing its consumer operations.
Now that share and house prices have dropped, consumers will increase their savings and reduce consumption, weighing the economy down.The debt problem will act as a permanent drag on the hopes for recovery.
There will be an end to denying coverage for pre-existing conditions and dropping consumers with serious illnesses.
