Mindlessness leads to habitual or auto-pilot consumption behaviors where individuals fail to focus on the present moment.

Evidence

Mindfulness through agency in health consumption … (Wiley)

corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
XREF: connects to: Mindlessness leads to panic and detrimental behavior. — Dan Harris, 10 percent Happier, 40; Mindful awareness has been defined as the capacity for acting with present-centered awareness rather than on ‘automatic pilot’ or being lost. — Relationship of mindful awareness to neural processing …; Mindlessness leads to locking all agency we can have over our thoughts and eventually physical health. — Dr. Ellen Langer on The Rich Roll Podcast (#813) (+5 more)

Mindlessness leads to locking all agency we can have over our thoughts and eventually physical health. (similarity 0.90)
Mindful awareness has been defined as the capacity for acting with present-centered awareness rather than on ‘automatic pilot’ or being lost. (similarity 0.84)
When on automatic pilot we are unaware and out of touch with the present moment; conscious awareness is clouded. (similarity 0.83)
Mindlessness can play a causal role in the development of psychological disorders like GAD and panic disorder. (similarity 0.80)
The paper defines ‘acting with awareness’ as ‘an enhanced capacity for acting with present-centered awareness rather than on automatic pilot.’ (similarity 0.79)
Everyday attention lapses and memory failures have affective consequences of mindlessness. (similarity 0.79)
Two-thirds of our daily behaviours are initiated ‘on autopilot’, out of habit. (similarity 0.78)