Archive for the 'Spending' Tag
How Americans Spend Their Money
‘Tis the season for turning otherwise normal people into up-at-dawn, deal-seeking lunatics. What better time than the holidays to look at how consumers — in the U.S. and around the world — spend their discretionary dollars (as opposed to outlays on necessities like food and housing). For a U.S. snapshot, Forbes turned to SpendingPulse, the [...]
Baby Boomers Buying Habits Change
Because the way we think and process information evolves as we age, experts say the way we behave as consumers also changes. According to Jim Shea at The Hartford Courant, as a result, members of the baby-boom generation are now at a stage in life where emotion and gut feelings play a bigger role in [...]
