STORRE Collection: Electronic copies of Retail Studies journal articles.Electronic copies of Retail Studies journal articles.http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2352024-03-28T14:25:56Z2024-03-28T14:25:56ZBullshit consumption: What lockdowns tell us about work-and-spend lives and care-full alternativesMolesworth, MikeGrigore, GeorgianaPatsiaouras, GeorgiosMoufahim, Monahttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/358462024-03-07T01:12:58Z2024-02-06T00:00:00ZTitle: Bullshit consumption: What lockdowns tell us about work-and-spend lives and care-full alternatives
Author(s): Molesworth, Mike; Grigore, Georgiana; Patsiaouras, Georgios; Moufahim, Mona
Abstract: COVID-19 disrupted ‘non-essential’ work and consumption, providing an unparalleled opportunity to examine work-and-spend culture, which we do via 44 in-depth interviews that capture experiences and reflections during UK lockdowns. Deploying Graeber’s conceptualisation of ‘bullshit jobs’ and related critiques of consumption, we first consider the possibility that contemporary work-and-spend lifestyles may deny the normative separation of work as worthy toil and consumption as its pleasurable opposite. Within such experience, and in addition to Graeber’s bullshit jobs, we find a parallel in bullshit consumption at work, in order to work, and because of work. Yet our findings also highlight that when freed from bullshit, participants engage in more caring practices for the self, others, and their possessions. We propose that much of our work-and-spend lives might be bullshit: routines that promise status, virtue, freedom, and pleasure, but feel meaningless, while displacing satisfying experiences of care. We conclude that a focus on subtractive logics – cutting the bullshit! – can activate both new critiques and optimism about societal arrangements.2024-02-06T00:00:00ZNostalgia and negotiation: The electronic word-of-mouth and social well-being of older consumersWilson-Nash, CarolynPavlopoulou, Isminihttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/355382024-03-19T01:00:19Z2024-03-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Nostalgia and negotiation: The electronic word-of-mouth and social well-being of older consumers
Author(s): Wilson-Nash, Carolyn; Pavlopoulou, Ismini
Abstract: As older people turn to the internet for consumption and social connection, it is imperative to understand how online consumption behaviors, such as generating and absorbing electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM), influence feelings of belonging. This study therefore explores how organic conversations around brands, products, and services influence older consumers' social well-being. A 6-month netnography was conducted in a social media platform geared toward older consumers where eWOM activity was created relating to books, household items, technology, furniture, financial services, clothing, and leisure activities. The findings reveal four types of eWOM-nostalgic, seeking reassurance/advice, providing reassurance/advice, and negotiation, which create experiences of social well-being. This research contributes to the marketing literature by (1) exploring the implications of eWOM on consumer well-being (2) investigating how the social value of eWOM interacts with social well-being, and (3) developing pioneering knowledge of older consumers generating and absorbing eWOM.2024-03-01T00:00:00ZDisability and Well-being: Towards a Capability Approach for Marketplace AccessBhogal-Nair, AnoopLindridge, Andrew M.Tadajewski, MarkMoufahim, MonaAlcoforado, DanielaCheded, MohammedFigueiredo, BernardoLiu, Chih-linghttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/354662023-10-18T00:01:00ZTitle: Disability and Well-being: Towards a Capability Approach for Marketplace Access
Author(s): Bhogal-Nair, Anoop; Lindridge, Andrew M.; Tadajewski, Mark; Moufahim, Mona; Alcoforado, Daniela; Cheded, Mohammed; Figueiredo, Bernardo; Liu, Chih-ling
Abstract: Using the Capability Approach (CA) as a means of identifying the barriers that individuals with disabilities face in achieving their goals, this conceptual paper aims to provoke discussion and identify how society excludes and marginalises individuals with disabilities. As framed through the lens of consumer vulnerability, reimagining how society, policy makers and the market can transform lived experiences, representation and symbolism of disability, this paper calls for a coherent and integrated set of actions. Central to these actions is a proposal for a transformative approach to marketplace access as a coordinated force to deliver positive change for people with disabilities. Through developing a new conceptual way of how the market should engage with disability, this paper presents proposals looking to ensure individuals with disabilities experience the conditions in which they can pursue their ultimate ends. Disabilities are presented here as constellations of difference, where an emancipatory model of the market represents a space to convert resources into functions tailored for everyone’s needs.Marketing responses to the taxation of soft drinks; Comment on "Understanding marketing responses to a tax on sugary drinks: a qualitative interview study in the United Kingdom, 2019"Sparks, Leighhttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/353632023-09-08T10:13:25Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Marketing responses to the taxation of soft drinks; Comment on "Understanding marketing responses to a tax on sugary drinks: a qualitative interview study in the United Kingdom, 2019"
Author(s): Sparks, Leigh
Abstract: The paper by Forde et al (2022) provides a useful qualitative consideration of marketing responses to the implementation of the 2018 Soft Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL) in the United Kingdom (UK). This commentary discusses that paper and its conclusions and seeks to place them in a broader context for marketing, fiscal measures and health and public policy. It suggests that modern conceptualisations of marketing and wider considerations of market and non-market strategies could provide a valuable lens to understand the ways in which companies and sectors respond to the threats they perceive and the constantly changing sectoral opportunities. It is important that fiscal measures introduced have the desired effects, and that not only positive behaviours (whether of companies or consumers) are incentivised, but that adverse behaviours are actively disincentivised2023-01-01T00:00:00Z