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  2. Goods and services - Wikipedia

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    Goods can be returned while a service, once delivered cannot. [4] Goods are not always tangible and may be virtual e.g. a book may be paper or electronic. Marketing theory makes use of the service-goods continuum as an important concept [5] which "enables marketers to see the relative goods/services composition of total products". [6]

  3. Service (economics) - Wikipedia

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    Service-Commodity Goods continuum. The distinction between a good and a service remains disputed. The perspective in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries focused on creation and possession of wealth. Classical economists contended that goods were objects of value over which ownership rights could be established and exchanged.

  4. SEC classification of goods and services - Wikipedia

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    An experience good is a product or service where product characteristics, such as quality or price, are difficult to observe in advance, but these characteristics can be ascertained upon consumption. The concept is originally due to Philip Nelson , who contrasted an experience good with a search good .

  5. Goods - Wikipedia

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    A tangible good like an apple differs from an intangible good like information due to the impossibility of a person to physically hold the latter, whereas the former occupies physical space. Intangible goods differ from services in that final (intangible) goods are transferable and can be traded, whereas a service cannot.

  6. Law of supply - Wikipedia

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    A supply is a good or service that producers are willing to provide. The law of supply determines the quantity of supply at a given price. [5]The law of supply and demand states that, for a given product, if the quantity demanded exceeds the quantity supplied, then the price increases, which decreases the demand (law of demand) and increases the supply (law of supply)—and vice versa—until ...

  7. Service (business) - Wikipedia

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    A service is a set of one-time consumable and perishable benefits that are: delivered from the accountable service provider, mostly in close co-action with his internal and external service suppliers, effectuated by distinct functions of technical systems and by distinct activities of individuals, respectively,

  8. Service economy - Wikipedia

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    The old dichotomy between product and service has been replaced by a Service (economics) service–product continuum . Many products are being transformed into services. For example, IBM treats its business as a service business. Although it still manufactures computers, it sees the physical goods as a small part of the "business solutions ...

  9. Customer benefit package - Wikipedia

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    Adding unique goods or services like free Internet access inside the fast food restaurant gives the customer the ability to surf the Internet while enjoying a meal. Often a variant will become part of the CBP on a continuous basis, thus it becomes a permanent peripheral good or service. Customer benefit package