Consumerism Jeopardy

Buying and Spending

100

$400 million dollars are wasted on this good annually.

What is uneaten Halloween Candy?

https://www.ngpf.org/blog/question-of-the-day/question-of-the-day-how-much-money-do-americans-waste-on-uneaten-candy-for-halloween/ 

200

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

What is $18,000?

https://www.vox.com/even-better/23449185/buying-less-stuff-holidays-inflation-marie-kondo 

300

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

What are subscription services? 

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400

37% of Gen Zers do this on a daily or weekly basis

What is online shopping?

https://www.ngpf.org/blog/question-of-the-day/question-of-the-day-what-percentage-of-gen-zers-shop-online-on-a-daily-or-weekly-basis/ 

500

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

What are unused gift cards?

https://www.ngpf.org/blog/question-of-the-day/question-of-the-day-what-is-the-average-value-of-unused-gift-cards-per-person-in-america/

Psychology

100

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

What is company experience?

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/10-mind-blowing-stats-consumer-behaviour-philomathresearch

200

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

What is small?

https://apherconsulting.com/blog/20-fun-facts-about-consumer-behavior 

300

75% of consumers participate in this activity. 

What is stress shopping?

https://apherconsulting.com/blog/20-fun-facts-about-consumer-behavior 

400

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

What is reading online reviews?

https://www.ngpf.org/blog/question-of-the-day/question-of-the-day-what-do-98-of-consumers-do-prior-to-buying-a-product/ 

500

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

What is the conscious consumer?

https://www.ngpf.org/blog/question-of-the-day/question-of-the-day-what-percent-of-people-consider-themselves-to-be-conscious-consumers/ 

Environment

100

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

What is plastic? 

https://www.strategy-business.com/article/The-rise-of-the-eco-friendly-consumer 

200

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

What is 70%?

https://www.theworldcounts.com/challenges/state-of-the-planet/solid-waste 

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.

What is palm oil? 

https://www.wwf.org.uk/updates/8-things-know-about-palm-oil#:~:text=Palm%20oil%20has%20been%20and,pygmy%20elephant%20and%20Sumatran%20rhino

400

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

What is clothing waste?

https://www.theworldcounts.com/challenges/state-of-the-planet/solid-waste 

500

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

What is 60%?

https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2020/12/16/buying-stuff-drives-climate-change/#:~:text=A%202015%20study%20found%20that,of%20global%20greenhouse%20gas%20emissions 

Workplace Injustice

100

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

What is Amazon?

https://cleanclothes.org/campaigns/the-accord 

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.

What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?

https://jacobin.com/2023/04/rana-plaza-factory-collapse-garment-workers-unions-anniversary 

300

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

What is a state minimum wage?

https://www.ncsl.org/labor-and-employment/state-minimum-wages 

400

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

What is 9.5 million?

 https://bluemarblepayroll.com/worker-rights-in-third-world-countries/

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!)

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BONUS- Group Trivia

100

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

Who is Adam?

200

This group member is celebrating a birthday today

Who is Rebekah?

300

This group member has four cats.

Who is Jaden?

400

This group member's favorite font is Helvetica. 

Who is Lauren?

500

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

What are chocolate chip cookies?