Competition and the vagaries of consumer taste have clipped the appeal of netbooks.

激烈的市场竞争以及消费者多变的口味已经消减了上网本的吸引力。

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But marketing experts know that consumer preferences are also shaped based on the taste of our peers, and on social norms and cultural trends.

但是营销专家知道，消费者的偏好也由以下因素塑造——我们周围人的评价、社会行为模式以及文化潮流。

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"It's a convergence of health, food safety, taste and traceability," said Phil Lempert, a food and consumer behavior analyst who calls himself the Supermarket Guru.

“这是健康，安全，美味以及可追溯的食品的集合。”菲尔莱母波特说。

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What's more, Japan's shrivelling home market has made it more difficult for firms to rely on the fastidious local consumer as an arbiter of taste.

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Toyota has given a taste of self-drive car safety technology ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas next week.

BBC: Toyota sneak previews self-drive car ahead of tech show