Problems faced by consumers give examples from every day life?

Question

Problems faced by consumers give examples from every day life?

Answer 1

I am never really sure about containers

Companies change the size of containers subtly so the cost for a can of soup today to me is higher then yesterday even if the price remained the same if the made the amount I get less.

Answer 2

Everyday life? Well, feeding my family of 7 has become increasingly hard with the price of basic esstinals going up, up, up. Eggs have gone up 30% in one year, bread, cereal and pasta products 35%. In fact, I can't think of a single retail items that has NOT gone up considerably within the last year. Where I live gas is currently at $4.09 a gallon and that definately has made an impact on my budget. Electricity has gone up as well. We recently had to move as our home went into foreclosure as we could no longer afford the ARM payment. We haven't had health ins. for 5 years, so whatever medical assistance we need has to come directly from our pockets. As if that weren't enough, we live in WI and with the recent storms our basement flooded and we had to throw out many things that we cannot afford to replace. Big storms predicted for tomorrow night......

Answer 3

Consumers can become pawns in an economic chess game of the elite.  Macro Psychology can be utilized to influence masses of people to conform to programmatic behavior.  

Control of information resources along with elements of survival such as food, clothing, and shelter, render an individual and thereby a group of individuals subject to the dominion of an elite who maintain these powers of influence.

In a rural agrarian society where an individual and or family unit has access to land to produce necessities for survival, the individual and or family unit is self sufficient.  The unit relies upon its own labor and access to land to provide basics for survival.

When communities create divisions of labor surrender the responsibility for producing the basics for survival to others, self sufficiency diminishes.

Example:  A family farmer can produce sufficient crop for family unit and exchange excess production for items not produced on homestead property.  Family farm has control of harvest.  Corn, Tomatoes, Peppers, etc cost the labor of planting, cultivating, and harvesting.  

A pair of shoes may be purchased elsewhere or bartered for a fair amount of items produced on the farm.  The farmer has to negotiate exchange for the shoes.  There is nothing to negotiate on items which the family uses which are available on the farm.

Gasoline for a tractor can have adverse impact on what farmer must produce to negotiate purchase.  The elite identify petroleum as a target commodity.  Control of the refined product availability has impact and thereby influenc upon how a farmer manages production.

Division of labor removes most people from access to self sufficient basic production.  Virtually every supply  is controlled by someone outside the family unit.  The vulnerablility to corrupt management of resources is immense.

The cost of living in the 1970's is quite different from 2008.  There are fewer family farmers.  Corporate interests are manipulating values to meet profit targets.