Much of the outcome in California will hinge on willing consumers, a retooled ad campaign, and whether the state has done enough to fix persistent service problems and technical glitches that continue to stymie many customers and enrollment workers.
Children are not willing consumers.
Newsstand sales are thought to be a bellwether for the economy, or at least for how willing consumers are to fork over $5 for an impulse purchase.
Before introducing Shopkick, the company's co-founder and chief executive, Cyriac Roeding, tested how willing consumers would be to "check in" to a location in exchange for a reward — in that case, money for charities.
The Michigan confidence index -- a measure of how willing consumers are to spend their money -- fell sharply in December and continued its slide in early January, but edged back up late in the month.
However, the viability of DSM is dependent on the participation of willing consumers.
Nor would they violate consumers' right to privacy, for pornography would be freely available for willing consumers to view in private.
Promoting the company as the next Yahoo, Sundby hoped to eliminate junk e-mail and misguided Internet ads by creating a massive one-to-one online marketing program where companies could target willing consumers.
In Los Angeles alone, services like Nugg, Ganjarunner, Kushfly, Eaze, HERB, Westside Organic, and Cannabis Express, all pitch delivery services for marijuana or cannabis infused products, oils and vapes to willing consumers.
