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consumer rights 

Your rights as a consumer.

As a consumer you (should) have a right to products that:
a) will not explode and destroy your city block
b) will not burn an orifice in your intestine
c) do not contain heavy metals
d) et
unless explicitly stated that they do.

As Americans, we have seen a large reduction in consumer rights, largely being yielded to allow the expansion of coporate rights because of corporate lobbyists in Washington.
Politicians in Washington are funded by corporations. Corporations don't care about consumer rights, they care about making a profit. Making a profit usually means disregarding consumer rights.

Ralph Nader is a consumer rights advocate.

Great Britain banned Dasani water after finding that it was bottled tap water and contained carcinogens like barium, a poisonous heavy metal. This was a step foward in the consumer rights movement.

It's good to know that although consumer rights have been severely reduced, they're not completely gone yet. We've got a couple years left.
consumer rights by DrIdiot April 3, 2005
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Consumer-psychosis 

This effect concerns the inoculation of apathy elicited through consumerism that, in my Cooper Chee's hit short film, causes various customers to treat employees as instruments of labour rather than actual human beings.
....critique the vices of human empathy, most notably satirising the consumer-psychosis effect....

consumer whore 

1. One who purchases (or complains about lack of ability to purchase) popular clothes or music solely in an attempt to conform.

2. One who purchases unpopular clothes or music solely in an attempt to be nonconformist.

3. One who shops at Hot Topic.
1. "Look at that consumer whore shopping at Fitch! I overheard him complain about their prices just the other day!"

2. "Why does she wear that AFI shirt? She hates the band, along with the rest of the school..."

3. "Fucking tight pants-wearing, name-dropping, commie-spouting dick. I heard him singing Sean Kingston the other day."
consumer whore by Galatas October 24, 2007

Consumer wear 

con·sum·er wear:

Something exported in large quantity's and delivered from often
sweatshop labor. Consumer wear is produced purely to increase
profit regardless of uniqueness, fit and the environment.
Example of consumer wear:

These pants are rectangular shaped because there inexpensive.
Consumer wear by Slimming Jeans October 7, 2009

consumer whorism 

1. Hell
2. An all-American export
3. See america,stupid,and politics
Consumer whorism: Coming to a corrupt nation near you!

Consumer Self-Isolation 

To get consumers to go buy things,

via the media,
corporations make individuals feel

so superior to most people

they feel disgusted of others

and stop interacting with them.
The glorification of movie stars, and the innate—it seems—cognitive bias that makes everyone think they're better than almost everyone else, help induce "consumer self-isolation".
Consumer Self-Isolation by but for February 23, 2020

Consumer Cellular 

That wireless company that have flip phones and mainly appeal to the elderly.
Friend: "What wireless company does your grandmother have?"
Other friend: "Consumer Cellular."
Friend: "Oh, I should have guessed."
Consumer Cellular by xxylvii May 18, 2021