But in more recent years consumers began abandoning department stores for luxury boutiques, in one direction, and discount stores, in the other.
In a more recent study, consumers appeared to value environmental sustainability and animal welfare claims more than they did certified organic wool claims in a study about the efficacy of sustainability labels on wool gloves (Peterson et al. 2012).
In the more recent literature, consumer-choice models have also been employed to investigate the impact of concentration on prices.
And more recent figures show consumers are continuing to spend.
In a more recent monadic, in-home, consumer research study conducted by Reckitt Benckiser Healthcare International that adopted the same methodology as Shephard et al. [ 16], approximately 86% of participants said they like to feel 'warm' and comforted when they are suffering from a sore throat (Personal Communications).
But many more recent models intended for consumers rather than professionals offer far more sophisticated features.
But his books are not like the how-to computer books of more recent years written for consumers, which mainly offer tips for using personal computers and smartphones.
Second, factual heterogeneity may be present; it is not clear if sample estimates obtained with, say, older data sets are generated by the same population of consumers as more recent data series.
THIS tale, by the way, is three years old, but you will find more recent variations of it on different consumer Web sites.
As a longtime enthusiastic consumer (and, in more recent years, purveyor) of apocalyptic narratives, I empathized readily with the obsessive anxieties of Mitchell Zukor, the protagonist of Nathaniel Rich's new novel, "Odds Against Tomorrow".
