Tag: consumerism
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Shopping Malls Don’t Have to Die: How to Utilize Malls Differently to Increase Foot Traffic
What once was a desirable safe haven in suburbs, cities, and off-highway towns is now… a ghost town. Shopping malls across the US have shuttered the stores that once kept Americans busy for hours on the weekends and offered hundreds of jobs for the community. Indoor and outdoor destinations that once served as the mecca…
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Is it Possible for Instagram to Become Casual Again?
Everywhere has become a marketplace. Online people are always trying to sell you things, telling you why you need this lip product or subscription. Physical products, digital products, services, experiences, people selling themselves as “brands” – nothing is safe. A major culprit in this constant marketplace is social media. Instagram, (aka Meta), in particular has…
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Check Please! All the Trends I Ate Up This Year and Those I Left Behind
I came across a TikTok from @pigmami (i think) who referenced trend consumption as a conveyor belt that you pick and choose from, like the sushi train. Instead of buying into every trend & micro-trend and thus, over-consuming, we should be assessing all the options and picking the ones we want most. She, and whoever…
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