The Reality of Overconsumption . The reality of overconsumption in America didn’t hit me until recently, when I noticed the ...

Meg Locker, 28, didn’t realize that she was spending a lot of time and money on shopping. Last January, while cleaning, she tried to take stock of how many bottles of face and body lotion she had and ...

In the last few years, a new trend has emerged on social media: De-influencers. Instead of selling, de-influencers encourage their followers to stop buying things they don't actually need.

Over the past decade, fashion and textile communities have voiced concerns about fast fashion. Growing more abundant, fashion follows a business model of quickly producing trendy clothes within a few ...

The last few weeks of the year are always a special time — for shopping. According to the National Retail Federation, a United States trade group, Americans will spend nearly $1 trillion on clothes, ...

Call ’em crimes against the food pyramid. The Snack Gods have blessed us with some out-of-this-world fusions lately, dropping mashups like crème brûlée grilled cheese, barbecue-flavored Cheetos and ...

Professor of Marketing at the Anderson School of Management, Catherine Roster, provides insight into the marketing world of overconsumption and a shift in mindset to sustainability long-term. Roster, ...

In this video essay, we explore how overconsumption became the aesthetic—from 1950s postwar shopping booms to 1980s mall culture and today’s TikTok haul economy. What began as a symbol of prosperity ...

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