Buying and Spending
Psychology
Environment
Workplace Injustice
BONUS- Group Trivia
100

$400 million dollars are wasted on this good annually.

100

80% of consumers believe that this factor is as important when deciding to make purchases as the quality of the product.

100

In 2019, 41% of Americans chose to avoid this material when shopping.

100

This popular online retailer has not signed the Accord on Saftey.

100

This group member is not fun. (They approve of this message.)

Who is Adam?

200

This is the amount of money the average American spends on nonessential goods and services annually. 

200

Adding this word in front of "fee" can increase response rate by 20%.

200

This percentage of the world is being overused due to consumerism.

200

This infamous disaster, which happened in 1911, resulted in the deaths of 146 garment workers; a seemingly small number compared to the Rana Plaza disaster.

200

This group member is celebrating a birthday today

Who is Rebekah?

300

The average person spends $219 per month on these things.

300

75% of consumers participate in this activity. 

300

This product is used frequently in most of the products we use daily, despite the fact that it is correlated with deforestation and climate change.

300

 Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee have not adopted this into their state law.

300

This group member has four cats.

Who is Jaden?

400

98% of consumers did this activity before buying a product.

400

Roughly 3 billion tons of waste of this product has been produced this year.

400

This number of people work in slave-like conditions across the globe.

400

This group member's favorite font is Helvetica. 

Who is Lauren?

500

The average unused amount of these things is $187 per American, which amounts to a total of $23 billion.

500

58% of people believe that this title suits them when it comes to consumerism.

500

This is the percentage of greenhouse gas emissions produced by the production of household goods and services. 

500

About 1.3% of hourly workers in the United States makes this much per hour.

What is $7.25, aka Federal Minimum Wage? (This percentage, btw, is an all-time low since data has began to be collected in 1979!)

https://www.ngpf.org/blog/question-of-the-day/question-of-the-day-what-percent-of-hourly-workers-in-the-us-earn-the-federal-minimum-wage/

500
This is the group's least favorite food at SUNY Fredonia.

What are chocolate chip cookies?

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