Artificial intelligence can detect patterns in your shopping behaviour that can help retailers deliver better deals to you, and then suggest things you never even knew you wanted.
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Buying reusable bags every time you shop is worse than just using plastic.
When young adults create and share online content focused on consumer products, it can trigger a social comparison process that results in feelings of inferiority and low self-esteem.
Specific predictions go obsolete fast, but some common themes are emerging – convenience, fragmentation, intelligence, personalisation and experience.
Meet the 'Yeah-buts' - those who know plastic is bad for the environment, but can't get behind the bag ban because it affects their own convenience. This mindset can stall the best-laid green plans.
The challenges facing town centres and high streets are intensifying.
Glance at House of Fraser, John Lewis et al and you might think it's time to give up the ghost.
Plastic bags will soon be gone from major supermarkets and many other shops too. Campaigns to reduce plastic even more should focus on positive advice, rather than shaming shoppers for their plastic use.
Bricks and mortar stores can play a crucial component in the future of retail.
Marketers once liked to think they could virtually steer people through shops and malls. But it appears shoppers' movements, possibly driven by primal instincts, aren't so easily directed.
Amazon has barred Australian shoppers from its US site, rather than contend with new GST rules on overseas purchases. But don't expect a stampede at your local branch of Harvey Norman as a result.
We're not going to stop wandering through shopping centres anytime soon, but mobile, micro-location and voice technologies are set to transform the retail experience.
A short history of Easter egg economics.
Physical stores and online technology can work hand in hand.
Most of us bargain hunt when shopping for a new blouse or pair of blue jeans, yet for some reason we don't with interest rates, potentially costing us thousands of dollars.
Compulsive spending is on the rise, here's what you need to know.
Materialism has an ugly face but it is here to stay. Rather than focusing efforts to diminish it we should utilise materialism to benefit wider society.
If your New Year's resolutions include improving your diet, it's worth thinking about eating healthier for the planet.
Water pollution, toxic chemical use and textile waste: fast fashion comes at a huge cost to the environment.
If you find help messages from factory and delivery workers in your presents this season, how should you respond?
Top contributors
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Associate Professor in Marketing and International Business, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Research Associate, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of Marketing, University of Birmingham
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Director, Centre for Employee and Consumer Wellbeing; Senior Lecturer, Deakin Business School, Deakin University
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Professor of Fashion Marketing, Nottingham Trent University
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Lecturer of Marketing, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Marketing Science, Ehrenberg-Bass Institute, University of South Australia
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Lecturer in Marketing, Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania
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Reader in Consumer Psychology, Anglia Ruskin University
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ARC Future Fellow, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne
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Executive Director, the Centre for the Study of Choice (CenSoC), University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor in International Business & Strategic Management, University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Lecturer, Environment and Agriculture, Curtin University
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Industry fellow, Graduate School of Business, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, Cities Research Institute, Griffith University
