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Topic: Consumers

A customer making a contactless payment using a credit card. (Getty Images/VioletaStoimenova)

Credit card defaults are soaring

Daria Solovieva
Self-Checkout at Supermarket (Getty Images/Grace Cary)

Self-checkout: yay or nay?

Joy Saha
Grocery stores were packed with big crowds and long lines as latest spike of COVID-19 cases prompted panic buying across the country on March 12, 2020 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Marketing-speak is bad for the planet

Kate Yoder - Grist
US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau logo (US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau/Getty Images/Salon)

Trump's CFPB Director pushed to resign

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
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Counterfeits hit home

Nate Seltenrich - FairWarning
(Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

A symbolic change of tune

Erik Gordon - The Conversation
Colin Kaepernick in the new Nike Ad (Instagram/Kaepernick)

"Wokewashing": Companies and good PR

Kim Sheehan - The Conversation
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY); Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) (AP/Seth Wenig/Getty/Mark Makela)

AOC, Sanders try to stop predatory loans

Matthew Rozsa
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(AP/Toby Talbot)

Why live Xmas trees are the green choice

Nicole Karlis
Daisy Ridley as Rey in "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" (Disney/Lucasfilm)

Secret behind the new "Star Wars" films

Subimal Chatterjee - The Conversation
(International Rice Research Institute/Massive)

Are GMOs as bad as we think?

Andrew Scarpellli
(AP)

Social mission, Inc.

Saerom Lee, Karen Winterich, Lisa E Bolton - The Conversation
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People wait to buy the new Apple iPhone 6 and 6 Plus devices, outside an Apple store in Hong Kong Friday morning, Sept. 19, 2014. The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus were released on Friday in Hong Kong. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu) (AP)

Brandwashing

Michael J. Armstrong, Maxim Voronov, Wesley S. Helms - The Conversation

Companies should take a stand

Daniel Korschun - The Conversation
(Reuters/Mike Blake)

Chicken poop for dinner?

Josh Eidelson
(Lucky Business/Shutterstock)

LEE PETERSON - Fast Company
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Still from a "Ford Fiesta Movement" promotional video.

Millennials can't afford cars

Daniel D'Addario
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