When I tell people that my job is studying women’s shopping patterns, you can’t imagine the jokes I hear. Most of them revolve around the stereotype that women have an insatiable appetite for shoes, handbags and sparkly things. Oh, if…
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THE BIG GREEN FURPHY: EXPERTS BUST DEGRADABLE PLASTIC BAG MYTH
Next time you accept a degradable plastic bag at the supermarket, think again – you may be doing little to help the environment and adding dangerous microplastics to rivers and oceans, experts say. The warning has prompted a Senate committee to call…
ADIDAS REMOVES PLASTIC SHOPPING BAGS FROM ITS STORES
Sportswear maker Adidas has vowed to remove plastic shopping bags from thousands of the company’s global retail stores, a move that will eliminate usage of about 70 million bags per year. The switch to paper bags will be implemented at…
ONLINE SHOPPING IS CHANGING THE FACE OF PACKAGING
The growth of online retail sales is outpacing the growth of sales at many physical retail locations. According to a recent comScore Inc. report, the ease of check out, product and brand variety, and the ability to create store accounts…
PAPER V PLASTIC. WHICH IS BETTER?
The Shopping Bag Debate Source – Greenfeet Blog The following article is an updated version of one I wrote several years ago. It has had over 30,000 readers in the last 3 months and has prompted hundreds of comments and lively…