Scarcity and consumers’ credit choices

Health care consumers: choices and constraints.

This article summarizes the research and data currently available on different dimensions of consumer choice. These dimensions include not only whether to participate in a health care plan and which plan to select if given a choice but also the decisions that lead to having a choice and the implications of making the choice. Data are presented on what choices consumers face, how many are given ...

The Psychological Effects of Perceived Scarcity on Consumers’ Buying Behavior

Consumers' Food Choices: Implications for Marketers

Consumers' choices among foods today are influenced by a wider variety of economic and non-economic factors than ever before. These factors must be understood and forecast by marketers who, facing increasing competition in all markets, must prepare for, not simply react to, inevitable marketplace change. Economists typically have relied on four types of variables to predict food demand: consume...

Do Consumers Really Want Credit Card Reform ?

E arlier this year, several bills were introduced in Congress to curb what many consumer advocates have described as abusive credit card practices. These bills were intended to keep credit card issuers from penalizing consumers for paying their card balances in full each month. In unveiling one of the measures, Congressman John LaFalce declared, “[Consumers] should not be tricked or trapped int...

Where to shop ? Understanding consumers ’ choices of grocery

For the last couple of decades consumer decision-making has been of increasing interest for retail as well as for consumer behaviour research. Food shopping constitutes a unique type of shopping behaviour. In comparison to other types of shopping, food is essential to life, and not often are there as many choices to be made in a short period of time as when shopping groceries. The purpose of th...