Japanese consumers are watching closely the U.S. government's efforts to make Japan dismantle various restrictions on imports of foreign goods into the country.
It is the drop in the rice pricing (blamed on consumers' loss of interest in rice and the freeing up of the international market) that is the cause.
It took a long time for Japanese imports to penetrate the American consumer markets.
In general, consumers prefer quantity to quality.
Rising costs are fueling anxieties among consumers.
Many consumers rose up against the consumption tax.
The consumer price index has been fluctuating wildly.
We consumers must buy more domestic products.
It is a literary work confronting the class problem of a consumer society.
Learning lessons from Europe, Japan has to switch its economic-oriented policy to a consumer-conscious one, in order to cope with the coming unprecedented aging society towards the 21st century.
One in four consumers thinks that prices will continue to rise in the future.
In America 'rebate' is widely recognized, generally as an incentive where makers give back directly to consumers.
Try to be a more rational consumer.
American consumer group identifies RealPlayer as 'badware'.
The purpose of advertising is to familiarize consumers with the name of a product.