Quotes About Consumer

For a macro cross-industry view, however, consider the robust methodology used in The American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), developed by Claes Fornell in conjunction with the National Quality Research Center (NQRC), Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. ACSI measures consumer satisfaction with goods and services in the United States.

The market system artificially creates scarcity by blocking the flow between the source and the consumer.

Wild strawberries fit the definition of gift, but grocery store berries do not. It's the relationship between producer and consumer that changes everything. As a gift-thinker, I would be deeply offended if I saw wild strawberries in the grocery store. I would want to kidnap them all. They were not meant to be sold, only to be given.

As the scholar and writer Lewis Hyde notes, "It is the cardinal difference between gift and commodity exchange that a gift establishes a feeling-bond between two people." Wild strawberries fit the definition of gift, but grocery store berries do not. It's the relationship between producer and consumer that changes everything.

Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public.

advertising produces familiarity which produces sales

TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.

81 percent of U.S. online consumers' purchase decisions are influenced by their friends' social media posts.

In spite of the weakness of the epidemiological evidence linking nitrites to cancer, and the established fact that 95 per cent of all the nitrite we ingest comes from bacterial conversion of nitrates naturally found in vegetables, many consumers have a lingering concern about eating nitrite-cured processed meats. But one person's concern is another's business opportunity.

Imported consumer goods were either banned or enormously expensive due to high tariffs,

The confidence you get from knowing about every crash, anywhere in the world, is crucial to delivering a high-quality product that needs to be used in the wild. In the consumer software business, you can't rely on your customers to tell you about crashes—many of them may not be technical enough, and most of them won't bother to take time off of their own important work to give you a useful crash report unless you make it completely automatic.

It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life.

People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.

We need to stop presenting community as just another option for the religious consumer and start presenting it as God's will for everyone. It should be seen as the reality of those within the church and the refuge for those without.

Caveat emptor [Let the buyer beware].

The goal of an ISP or a broadband provider is to get as many subscribers as possible. It's not to try to annihilate consumer interests.

We marked a milestone for consumer empowerment when we began to publish consumer complaint narratives which allow people to share in their own words their experiences in the consumer financial marketplace.

Consumers have the right to know important information about the service they are choosing to purchase and/or use.

You get more irrationality within the family and in consumer behavior than you get, say, in the behavior of firms in their purchases.

Consumer groups fought hard to provide investor protections for 'special entities' such as pension funds, schools, and municipalities who purchase swaps. No comparable protection exists in the futures market.

The federal government should not be in the business of initiating and administering short-term incentive programs designed to shape consumer purchase behavior.

Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.

In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.

My little self-analysis is that consumer technology is the closest thing we have to magic. You push a button and something happens at your command. The things that get me fired up the most have always been the things that seem the most magical.