#consumer-culture — Public Fediverse posts

McDonald’s is offering Rewards members a free Double Cheeseburger on September 18 with a $1 minimum purchase through the app at participating restaurants.

I am far more interested in why giving away a burger makes excellent business sense for a company whose loyalty program is tied to tens of billions of dollars in sales.

Take the burger. Know the bargain.

https://jtwb768.com/2026/09/12/mcdonalds-is-giving-away-double-cheeseburgers-free-has-entered-the-chat/

#McDonalds #NationalCheeseburgerDay #FastFood #ConsumerCulture #JTWB768

𝗪𝗮𝘆𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲𝗿: "𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗻𝘀" 𝗯𝘆 𝗖𝘆𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗮 𝗖𝗿𝘂𝘇 -

3-Word Review:

- Inter-linked
- Thematically-rhythmed
- Melancholic

Frictional Posture:

- What disordering "serpent" licks at the edges of the speakers' experiences?

#bookreview #bookrecommendations #readinglist #literature #books #book #reading #bookstagram #frictionalreading #3words #cynthiacruz #poetry #howtheendbegins #postmodernism #consumerculture #media

WELCOME TO THE KINGDOM OF LIGHT AND LIES

You came for bread, milk and coffee.

You left with chocolate, expensive cheese, organic hummus, a loyalty card, three things that were on sale, and a vague feeling that you might become a better person.

The supermarket knows you better than you think.

It knows what you want. What you fear.
What you pretend to need.

And somewhere between the fluorescent fruit and the self-checkout machine accusing you of an unexpected item, there is a small question:

Who exactly is shopping for whom?

A new field guide from RABAGAS Magazine: Welcome to the Kingdom of Light and Lies.

🛒 Read it here: https://rabagas.ghost.io/welcome-to-the-kingdom-of-light-and-lies/

#Rabagasmagazine #ConsumerCulture #Supermarket #Essays #Capitalism #Consumerism

The Loveliest

The woman 
with a 
double chin 
and fat fingers
around plastic bags 
plops down 
in the seat
across the aisle 
and blocks 
my view of the
goddess 
whose magazine 
is filled with 
clothes
she'd fill out 
quite nicely.

The pretty 
and the ugly 
sit side by side
and I wonder 
who is 
the loveliest 
in God's eyes.

February 22, 2002

ICYMI: 56% of Latinas drop brands over stereotypes, LDC and Kantar find: 86% of Latinas already control household spending and 74% steer peer purchases, according to a June 30 study. Brands slow to adapt risk losing both groups. https://ppc.land/56-of-latinas-drop-brands-over-stereotypes-ldc-and-kantar-find/ #Latinas #BrandLoyalty #ConsumerCulture #DiversityInMarketing #WomenEmpowerment

As some shops toy with removing changing rooms entirely what does it mean for the future of the high street. #retail #fashion #consumerculture

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026/jun/19/changing-rooms-high-street-shops?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into FLIPBOARD EXCHANGE FEED 🗞️ @flipboard-exchange-feed-Econopass

This is interesting - saw a post here on Mastodon on this topic a few days ago - couldn't find it again, so started searching the web and found this related article from Psychology Today ...

Hooked Young: How Consumer Culture Recruits Us Early in Life

This isn’t the life we came for. A small, silent voice within can guide us back.

Key points

- For 2 million years, we were raised in villages, wiring us for connection. Now we arrive in homes too quiet.

- Consumer culture arrives early in our youth and promises to deliver the connection we’re missing.

- We get hooked on this promise—that buying and achieving will bring us closeness—but it’s a false promise.

- A voice within still longs for real people, real presence, and a way back to each other. It’s time we listen.

...

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/born-for-a-better-world/202509/hooked-young-how-consumer-culture-recruits-us-early-in-life

#consumerculture

(5) now imagine a monochrome supermarket.
entire aisles of identical packages.
rows of grayscale promises.
all stripped of urgency.

#mastodon #art #soundart #visualculture #perception #mediaart #waysOfSeeing #johnberger #barthes #semiotics #visualstudies #design #packaging #consumerculture #aesthetics #contemporaryart #criticaltheory #mediaecology #visualtheory #sensoryexperience #fooddesign #graphicdesign #soundstudies #culturaltheory #everydayaesthetics

The Seven Deadly Sins Are Draining Your Bank Account
https://wp.me/p84YjG-aKH
#SevenDeadlySins #DebtAndSocialMedia #SocialMediaEnvy #OverspendingMen #FinancialStress #MentalHealthMen #GluttonyAndGreed #ExpatLife #ConsumerCulture #StopOverspending #MensWellness #PersonalGrowth #zsoltzsemba

https://zsoltzsemba.com/the-seven-sins-that-are-draining-your-bank-account/

✮ We Stood and Did Nothing – The Good Old Days ✮

The old days, ever so ancient on today’s thought, is more than good, it was hospitable to life. On a rock, blocks away from a nurturing star—at least before it grows into angry titan until it burns everything and eventually burns out—life did more than exist, it craved meaning as it evolved into surging tides of intelligence. So we thought.

Water is life. Where it stood, and the channels where it went, lived cities glowing like embers under a dark sky. Fields of cities that kept sprawling with the seasons and infecting terrains until their flesh of lush and dirt hardened into plastic, steel, fiber optics, depression, boredom, and greed.

Water was everywhere. Even the clouds were generous, tirelessly visiting the world spring after spring to wake seeds and watch them walk. Now the clouds spit acid. The trees no longer walk, for the fires have turned them into cinders. Fowls, faeries, and fauna stir no more. They are memories encased in glass reserved for the eyes of hands that paid overpriced tickets. Water flowed through us, before we turned them into plastic bottles, before the bottles turned into mountains that saw woods as trespassers. Water housed schools of fish that were never educated about those who lived on the surface, before they had multiple googly eyes and before they glowed green, before the reefs were bleached white until they were nothing but bones that stayed as scintillae of the past.

The old days when the air was a virgin until, in our perversion, we fused it with death. They used to course through the living skies, but many preferred gray over blue, so we stood and did nothing, until they, too, were in canisters exclusive to those whose hearts are made of ice and glass and known for selling the world.

They were vampires burying their rabid fangs down the jugular veins on the neck of our planet, siphoning every drop of blood it could offer. They did. They appealed to our weakness. They played our naïveté, pumping fear into all of us until we were itemized in a catalog under banners and sigils, until we were pitted against each other.

We had boxes for houses, and we stood when we slept, and we slept for hours, barely enough to keep us alive so we could keep paying insurance companies and keep their pockets plump while we ate synthetic supplements. We toiled day after wretched day and day as they mapped out our genome and auctioned our souls to the highest bidder, easier for them to lull us into a deep trance, we salivated to every ding of a bell and attended webinars in the belief that we could find ourselves, but we were never lost to begin with, we just needed to pay someone to point out that we’re always the same people living under our flesh.

We used to have stars, but in their place, LED billboards of emaciated beings telling us what we are not. The world used to be green; now it’s just dismal. Those who knew were vigilant, but we cast stones their way and accused them of crying wolf. Lo and behold, those who were pointing fingers at them were the real wolves, but it’s too late for that now.

Every day, we inched closer to our demise, and as promised, life as we knew it, flashed before our eyes.

These things have yet to come to past.

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4 Old-School Money Habits That Quietly Make People Rich

With flying drones now a permanent fixture in the night sky, no one could blame people for pining…
#NewsBeep #News #Personalfinance #Business #consumerculture #Finance #frugallifestyle #Livingpaychecktopaycheck #moneyhabits #PersonalFinance #SamWalton #UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/518707/

https://www.europesays.com/2901519/ 4 Old-School Money Habits That Quietly Make People Rich #business #ConsumerCulture #FrugalLifestyle #LivingPaycheckToPaycheck #MoneyHabits #PersonalFinance #SamWalton

https://www.europesays.com/uk/876896/ 4 Old-School Money Habits That Quietly Make People Rich #Business #ConsumerCulture #Finance #FrugalLifestyle #LivingPaycheckToPaycheck #MoneyHabits #PersonalFinance #SamWalton #UK #UnitedKingdom

4 Old-School Money Habits That Quietly Make People Rich

With flying drones now a permanent fixture in the night sky, no one could blame people for pining…
#NewsBeep #News #Personalfinance #Business #consumerculture #Finance #frugallifestyle #Livingpaychecktopaycheck #moneyhabits #PersonalFinance #SamWalton #UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/516662/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/423366/ 4 Old-School Money Habits That Quietly Make People Rich #Business #ConsumerCulture #Éire #FrugalLifestyle #IE #Ireland #LivingPaycheckToPaycheck #MoneyHabits #PersonalFinance #PersonalFinance #SamWalton

✮ We, The Beautiful Blemishes ✮

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Powerade Sports Drink

https://gregurbano.com/2026/01/21/powerade-sports-drink/

Dustbuster. Black & Decker, 1983
.
#VintageAdvertising #1980sDesign #BlackAndDecker #Dustbuster #Appliances #Advertisement #IndustrialDesign #HouseholdTechnology #ConsumerCulture #retro #Vintage

Reduce, #Recycle, Reuse! What do you have that could be sold, donated or fixed before you replace?

Clever high school student reveals lucrative side hustle: 'The government really does throw away gold' https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/clever-high-school-student-reveals-063000606.html

#waste #trash #consumerculture #upgrades #moneytips

Sale at Brown Thomas

The January sales in Brown Thomas attract many but the shop is a good place to meet someone as I presume this gentleman was, back in 2016.

#BrownThomas #BrownThomasCork #BrownThomasSale #candidPhotography #ChristmasShopping #consumerCulture #contemporaryIreland #CorkCity #CorkCityCentre #CorkStreetScene #fashionAdvertising #IrishShopping #retailPhotography #socialCommentary #StreetPhotography #urbanPhotography

Reality Meets Advertisement

People walking along a corridor in a shopping mall in Birmingham, England. 2022.

#Advertising #Birmingham #BirminghamCityCentre #BlackAndWhite #blackAndWhitePhotography #candidPhotography #consumerCulture #contemporaryLife #England #mallPhotography #modernRetail #Photo #retailSpace #shoppingCentre #shoppingCulture #StreetPhotography #UnitedKingdom #urbanPhotography

*@flipboard.com = advertising

#Fediverse #Capitalism #CapitalismKills #ConsumerCulture

https://www.europesays.com/uk/372000/ Exploring 600 years of branding in Richard Shear’s book #AHistoryOfBrands #BookReview #Books #BrandDevelopment #BrandStorytelling #Branding #ConsumerCulture #Entertainment #MarketingEvolution #ModernBranding #RetailHistory #UK #UnitedKingdom

😱 Shocking revelation: #Apple hasn't incinerated the Holy Gospel according to Jobs! Relax, fanboys! 🍏 The #iPad is still an oversized iPhone that no one can figure out why they bought. 🤷‍♂️ Keep dreaming of a "computer-like" future while Apple collects your $$$ for fancy window dressing. 🤑
https://victorwynne.com/vision-for-ipad/ #Revelation #Fanboys #TechCritique #ConsumerCulture #HackerNews #ngated

The #Genocide in #Gaza may be a problem for the news and entertainment industries, even #ConsumerCulture.

To the extent that the slaughter becomes something that #Consumers recognise their own complicity in via their governments, the glamour and success of #Consumption is lessened, tarnished by the knowledge of children being killed when consumption is happening.

#ProSportAndGenocide?

And today western civilzation and the cultures within it look to be #Betrayal.

From #Gaza to #DomesticViolence, from #FreeSpeechAbsolutists & #BodilyAutonomyAbsolutists through to #ConsumerCulture and the #MajorReligions, #Capitalism and #Poverty it's betrayal and more betrayal.

And not surprisingly betrayal is today brutally obvious in interpersonal relationships as well.

Options: Harden up, soften, go it alone, seek out more honesty and responsibility, give up, ... ?

How do you do it?

A social & cultural #history of consumerism in 20 c Britain, Ben Highmore's "Lifestyle Revolution" tracks changes of taste & how they influenced the British class system, from #cookbooks #ads & TV shows to shops like Habitat

#CulturalStudies #BritishStudies #ConsumerCulture

https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1837638330

Learning is increasingly positioned as a lifelong, lifewide activity, harmonized across formal & informal spaces. It's becoming a lifestyle choice, often commodified, where consuming equals learning. #LifelongLearning #ConsumerCulture

Curious about how corporate choices shape cultural connections? Joy-Ann Reid delves into the evolving relationship between Black women and Target, examining the shift from Walmart to Target underlining corporate accountability and stylish offerings. Influenced by Michelle Obama and the quest for community support post-Floyd’s tragedy, Target seeks to redefine its image, but challenges remain. Explore the full story and insights on identity and consumerism. Read more here: [Source](https://www.joyannreid.com/p/black-women-and-target-a-tainted) #Target #BlackWomen #ConsumerCulture #CorporateResponsibility

Faces glow with screens,
silent hands reach for more, yet
hearts remain untouched.

@consciousliving
@haiku

#DigitalIsolation #SelfishConsumption #LostConnections #ModernLoneliness #ScreenAddiction #ConsumerCulture #DisconnectedSociety #EmptyHandsFull

@PeterRu #ConsumerCulture does not want to hear this; they rather believe the fairy tale about #GreenEnergy and #AI combined could save the planet. Truth is, they will kill ever more of it.

💰✨ Watch Generation Wealth by #LaureenGreenfield A powerful exploration of our obsession with money and the cost of the American Dream. 📉 It's a must-see for anyone questioning the true value of wealth! #GenerationWealth #Documentary #ConsumerCulture #Wealth #LaurenGreenfield 🎥🌍

⭐https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5268348/

🍅https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/generation_wealth

🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyfC1AVhfb8

#movierecommendation 🍿

🔍 Commodity fetishism: We create things, but their value seems detached from our labor 🤔 Products shape our reality & desires, not vice versa 🌀 The irony? Non-material entities (commodities) transform social consciousness 🧠💫 Marketing exploits this brilliantly 📈 #MarxistTheory #ConsumerCulture #CommodityFetishism

"Cautionary stories of the consequences of taking too much are ubiquitous in Native cultures, but it's hard to recall a single one in English. Perhaps this helps to explain why we seem to be caught in a trap of overconsumption, which is as destructive to ourselves as to those we consume."
Robin Wall Kimmerer

#consumerCulture #climatechange #environment

If casual fly tipping is any indication the single biggest "This hideous item has no place in my life now" must be the AV TV stand. Is it fashion or does everyone just nail their TV to the wall now? #TV #FlyTipping #ConsumerCulture #Waste