Sixteen Kinds of Potatoes. Yesterday I started us on a potato journey with a post about how to select the right kind of potato. Today I'm going to show you the loot I picked up from the farmers' market last week: sixteen varieties of potatoes. Some are common varieties and available from farmers in many potato-growing regions. Others are rare varieties. Take it as a loose guide, and a colorful tour of the spuds of the NYC area.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Consumerism is a social and economic order that encourages the purchase of goods and services in ever-greater amounts. Criticisms of consumption are already present in the works of Thorstein Veblen.
Definition of consumer for Students. 1  1 : a person who buys and uses up goods. 2  2 : a living thing that must eat other organisms to obtain energy necessary for life.