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Economic Goods and Services
Question | Answer |
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Consumer Goods And Services | Products produced for personal consumption. |
Consumers | People who use goods and services to satisfy their wants. |
Convenience Products | Consumer goods and services purchased quickly and without much thought or effort. |
Economic Goods | Physical objects that are useful, scarce, and transferable and which satisfy economic wants. |
Economic Services | Productive acts that are useful, scarce, and transferable and which satisfy economic wants. |
Economic Want | A desire for something that can only be satisfied by spending money. |
Equipment | Industrial goods used in the operation of a business but not used in the actual production of goods and service. |
Goods | Tangible objects that can be manufactured or produced for resale. |
Impulse Item | Any item purchased as a result of an on-the-spot decision to buy. |
Industrial Goods And Services | Products purchased by producers for resale, to make other goods and services, and/or to use in business operations. |
Installations | High-cost, long-lasting industrial goods that are used to produce other goods and services. |
Market Research | The systematic gathering, recording, and analyzing of data about a specific issue, situation, or concern that effects a market. |
Materials | Industrial goods that become part of a finished product after they have been processed. |
Noneconomic Want | A desire for something that can be satisfied without spending money. |
Parts | Industrial goods that become part of a finished product without any additional processing. |
Producers | The people who make or provide goods and services. |
Product | A good or service that a company sells to consumers. |
Raw Materials | Items in their natural state or condition. |
Scarce | Limited |
Services | Intangible activities that are preformed by other people for money; productive acts that satisfy economic wants. |
Shopping Products | Consumer goods and services purchased after customers compare products to get the best quality, price, and/or service. |
Specialty | Consumer goods and services with special or unique characteristics that customers are willing to exert special efforts to obtain. |
Staple Item | A frequently purchased item that businesses keep on hand continuously because the demand for it is constant. |
Supplies | Industrial goods that are constantly being purchased and used up in the operation of a business. |
Tangible | Capable of being touched, smelled, tasted, seen, or heard; physical. |
Ultimate Consumer | Anyone who personally uses a good or service to satisfy their own wants. |
Unsought Products | Consumer goods and services bought out of necessity or adversity rather than desire |
Want | A desire for something that may or may not be required. |