Changes In Consumer Behavior & Their Implications for Marketers : A 33 page paper taking a general look at marketing and consumer behavior since the 1920s, when widespread use of electricity and economic prosperity gave rise to marketing in earnest. There was growing discontent with promises made vs. product delivered by the 1950s; the current consumerism movement was crystallized in 1962 with the Consumers’ Bill of Rights. When consumers demanded value in their purchases, they increasingly turned to Japanese companies to study their methods of manufacturing only to discover that the Japanese had raised to an art form the same principles of continuous process improvement and high quality that American manufacturers had eschewed after World War II. It was TQM, and they called it a "Japanese" technique. American manufacturers have rectified most of their quality problems, and now court the American consumer in relationships, are environmentally aware and make increasing use of the......

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Title: Market Research
Approximate Word Count: 5458
Approximate Pages: 22 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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