Tag: online shopping
Big-box retail chains were never a solution for America’s downtowns −...
Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Hunter College
Holiday shopping is in full swing, but city dwellers may have fewer options for...
Americans are tiptoeing out of economic turmoil this holiday shopping season
Ayalla A. Ruvio, Michigan State University and Forrest Morgeson, Michigan State University
With two big shopping days on the...
Just in time for back-to-school shopping: How retailers can alter customer...
Christopher Faires, Iowa State University and Robert Overstreet, Iowa State University
Back-to-school sales are underway, and people across the...
Consumers often can’t detect fake reviews – and underestimate how many...
Shabnam Azimi, Loyola University Chicago
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Gen Z smartphone addiction can boost compulsive buying – but businesses...
Nisreen Ameen, Royal Holloway University of London
People born between the mid-1990s and early 2010s – so-called generation Z...
What are dark patterns? An online media expert explains
Jasmine McNealy, University of Florida
Dark patterns are design elements that deliberately obscure, mislead, coerce and/or deceive website visitors...
Instagram’s redesign shifts toward shopping – here’s how that can be...
Nazanin Andalibi, University of Michigan
Recently, when I opened Instagram, I noticed that the usual spot for checking notifications is now a Shop tab. The...
Buyer beware: Counterfeit markets can flourish during a public health crisis
Jay Kennedy, Michigan State University
Rapid acceleration of coronavirus-related infections and fatalities in countries like Italy, Spain and the United States has led to widespread...
EXPLORING NATURE
Biobots arise from the cells of dead organisms − pushing the...
Peter A Noble, University of Washington and Alex Pozhitkov, Irell & Manella Graduate School of Biological Sciences at City of Hope
