material goods
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Total remittances and material goods to the island amounted to $3 billion last year, according to Emilio Morales of the Havana Consulting Group, a Miami-based market-intelligence firm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
About one-third pointed to spending on experiences, and 13% chose spending on material goods.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 21, 2025
As Bob Batchelor wrote in his paper "Advertising in the 1920s," most Americans both had more financial success than they had in the previous decade and increasingly equated material goods with personal success.
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2023
In addition to the shipment of material goods like agricultural products, precious metals, and spices, the transportation of enslaved people was also facilitated along Islamic trading routes.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
The economic changes making material goods cheaper have forced businesses to seek out new opportunities so that they now market to groups they once ignored.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
