Retired Persons or Zoomers? Review by Christopher BlackburnThe author, David Cravit, is Executive Vice-President of ZoomerMedia, which has taken over marketing for CARP, formerly Canada's Association for Retired Persons. A glossy magazine, ZOOMER magazine, has replaced the rather dull-looking but quite interesting CARP newsletter, and the media company insists that CARP is now Canada's Association for Zoomers. (The book says that this term was arrived at by starting with Baby Boomers and moving through "Boomers" and "Boomers with Zip." It certainly has a livelier image than "retired persons".)
David Cravit insists that "Baby Boomers and older" are not retired persons, expect to keep working, and represent an important market segment. He feels that marketers should be directing more advertising to the group of persons born after World War II.