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.
Similarly, the "smart consumerism" identified by Kelner and Wellman [ 26] was not prevalent among our participants.
The debate around the transformation of the Irish electricity system in Ireland is suffused with a narrative of optimism (technological, economic, policy), nationalism (energy independence, Ireland as a world leader in smart grids) and consumerism (often under a banner of enhanced economic competitiveness and attractiveness to globalised inward investment).
For one thing, Burr is selling himself short: as well as being a gifted joke-writer and a sharp performer, he has all kinds of smart things to say about hypocrisy, consumerism, and the rage that lives in the hearts of modern American men — as his bits on Black Friday, Steve Jobs, and Lance Armstrong demonstrate.
Eight different faces of consumerism were identified, although the "smart consumer" was rare and the "consumer as hedonist" was only hinted at as an identity for others.
He stands up against greed, instant gratification and consumerism, and demands that only the smartest are able to go to Tenerife with £500 spending money.
So, expect a shift from passive, transactional consumerism towards customers having more creative control — arguably smart in the age of Web 2.0, where people expect a say on just about everything.
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There are murmurs, in smart circles, that the capital of bling has had its hour; that Dubai's shrill consumerism is so last century, and that the savvy traveller would do well to fly instead to Muscat now that there are direct flights (seven hours with Gulf Air - 0870 777 1717; www.gulfairco.com), and soak up the true magic of Arabia, in all its dusty splendour.
"That mass consumerism and standardization could somehow be reconciled with rampant individualism was one of the smartest tricks ever pulled by Western civilization," he says.
Is it consumerism run amok?
