Market practices, business relationships and consumer expectations developed over decades are not likely to be quickly swept aside.

The answers are converted into an index of consumer expectations.

Managing consumer expectations could be crucial to the long-term health of the industry.

This is ultimately a cultural issue, about consumer expectations, not just a logistical one.

Indeed, based on the 15-day reading, consumer expectations were even gloomier than in December.

How consumer expectations about the home have changed, and how they might change again.

Publishers paid too much attention to their own costs, he said, and too little to consumer expectations.

"These young people have more information and more consumer expectations than those at the start of the revolution."

The index of consumer expectations fell to 77.2 from 85.2.

The others were a longer average workweek, higher stock prices and a rise in consumer expectations.