Tag: survey
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#GoodNewsNextWeek: Cashless Backlash, Cord Cut, No Smoking (Audio)
This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: The backlash against the cashless society gets an unexpected ally; The cord-cutting keeps on coming; And smoking rates hit record lows in the US.
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#GoodNewsNextWeek: Survey Says, Cut That Cord! (Video)
This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: The backlash against the cashless society gets an unexpected ally; The cord-cutting keeps on coming; And smoking rates hit record lows in the US.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Cocaine Importation Agency, Wendy’s Daleks, Less TV In US (Audio)
This week on the New World Next Week: Pablo Escobar’s son says his dad ran drugs for the CIA; Wendy’s lays off 1,000 minimum wage workers for automatic kiosks; and Americans have fewer TVs on average than when we started making this show.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Americans Are Ditching Their TVs in Record Numbers. Here’s What They’re Watching. (Video)
This week on the New World Next Week: Pablo Escobar’s son says his dad ran drugs for the CIA; Wendy’s lays off 1,000 minimum wage workers for automatic kiosks; and Americans have fewer TVs on average than when we started making this show.
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Frugal US Consumers Make It Tough for Food Companies to Raise Prices
from reuters.com: Consumers “have gotten really good over these last four years at stretching a penny,” said Pat Conroy, leader of the U.S. consumer products practice at Deloitte LLP. Referring to the recession, he said, “Our hypothesis was that this thing was going to leave a scar, not a bruise. So far, we’ve been right.”…
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‘Natural’ vs ‘Organic’: How Food Labels Deceive
from abcnews.go.com: When strolling the supermarket aisles, do you know the difference between “natural” and “organic”? Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a food watchdog group, has been battling what he considers misleading or confusing labels — everything from “natural” to “whole grains” for decades. “The food industry…
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hershey’s, kraft top research & development charts in US
from warc: Hershey’s, Kraft and the Kellogg Company are the firms seen as having the best innovation programmes by US consumers, a study has revealed. The Temkin Group, the consultancy, surveyed 5,000 people, asking panellists how likely they would be to try new goods and services rolled out by leading brand owners “right away”, with…
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oregon tops nation in food stamp use
from kezi: Oregon has the highest percentage of people on food stamps in the nation. A newly released U.S. Census survey reports 18 percent of Oregonians said they rely on a federal program for food. Food stamp use in Oregon surged 23 percent last year and has doubled in the past four years. Supplemental Nutrition…
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survey says: food price rise to hit US holiday spending
from reuters: More than a third of U.S. consumers expect rising food prices to cause them to cut back on holiday spending, a new survey showed on Tuesday. A total of 28.4 percent of the 1,000 people surveyed by Americas Research Group said that rising food costs would cause them to cut back on their…
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3/10 Binge & Purge: Dustbowl, Perceptions, Sovereignty
US farmers fear the return of the dust bowl