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Moving from an Ownership to a Rental Society
June 12th, 2013
In two recent columns, here and here, I wrote about two of the three consumer economic trends that are and will dramatically change consumer and buyer behavior well into the 2020s. In this column I address the third major consumer economic trend, moving from an ownership to a rental society. This trend as with the prior two will be prevalent primarily in the developed world and then spread globally in a decade or so.
Four years ago I started to suggest that in the United States, the reorganizational recession of 2007-2010 might have broken the aspirational, patriotic …
The Second Major Consumer Economic Trend
May 26th, 2013
Since 2010 I have been speaking about what I see as three new consumer economic trends that will alter consumer behavior in the developed countries of the world. A number of aligning forces are significantly increasing the influence and impact of these three trends.
In a recent column here, I wrote about Conscious Capitalism, one of the three new dominant trends of consumer behavior for the Transformation Decade 2010-2020. Conscious capitalism is when a company takes on an altruistic cause, charity or practice and applies revenue to that endeavor. In that column I profiled two companies, Tom’s Shoes …
A Major Trend in Consumer Behavior – Conscious Capitalism
April 10th, 2013
[This column was first published in Shift Age Newsletter #22]
One of the three major consumer trends I have been speaking about during the past few years is conscious capitalism. Conscious capitalism is when a company takes on an altruistic cause, charity or practice and applies revenue to that endeavor.
Initially this behavior was mostly about creating a feel good halo around a brand. Donating to or underwriting a charity has long been a way to allow a company to point to something that it was supporting to benefit it’s hometown community or a national charity. Supporting a …