Re: Consumer choice is reducing
Originally Posted by
AnnieS
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Having woken up in the middle of the night what else do you do but go online to have a look at the latest slimline dishwasher models. We've had the current Bosch 16 years and it's still going but thought it would be nice to replace it. However, going online they now look tiny inside with only about half the room to stack dishes. You'd think in all these years they would have given you more room!
So then went to look for another marvel mat having bought a fabulous one in store from Dunelm last year which is great for when the dog comes in from outside.
Firstly impossible to navigate their site as it seems really disorganised and then it was coming up with error messages. Turns out that they don't do the design I wanted in the size I wanted but they do it in other sizes or they have a different design in the size I want. Yet in store last year they had lots of choice.
Is anyone finding it harder to find what you want online these days? It seems that sellers are being lazy with their website design. Overall the choice of what's on offer and design quality seems to be going right downhill. Websites take forever to load with various pop-up rubbish.
Consumerism seems well and truly over. Makes me think of Henry Ford's quote, you can have your car painted any colour as long as it's black.
I dont think consumerism is over at all Annie's
I think that consumerism is at the core of uks problems.
We currently consume considerably more than we produce,
Our whole economy is based on consumer confidence,
Code for spending more than we can afford
Surely a recipe for disaster.
So where does the money come from for this spending
Credit!
The banks lend us the money, via credit ards, loans etc
The banks charge interest on these loans, to make profit
for the banks
A very simple concept
But, a fly in the ointment! The uk has, over 4 decades
Past, been selling of our industries to whoever would buy
them.
We have no real exports to use to replace our credit or
Borrowings as we did before we deindustrialised
We, now are almost entirely dependent on our banking
industry
For me, not a good place to be
Just take the 2008 banking crisis,which led to the austerity
Programne we are still suffering from today as the public
are compelled to pay the debts of risk taking banks
None of this is sustainable
Best Regards Donkeyman.
PS, all this from underpants.