What Is a Consumer Product?

Consumer products are those products that are purchased by end consumers and used for personal consumption. Marketers also subdivide consumer goods into: daily necessities, optional goods, special products and non-necessities according to how consumers buy consumer goods. ^[1]

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Consumer products are those products that are purchased by end consumers and used for personal consumption. Marketers also subdivide consumer products into:

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In the first quarter, Beijing s newly introduced five national real estate regulation and control policies were more stringent, the income distribution reform plan was delayed, and the actual growth rate of residents income continued to slow. The consumer goods market remained stable overall.

In this context, the city's retail sales of social consumer goods reached 200.88 billion yuan, an increase of 9.4% year-on-year, a growth rate of 4.9 percentage points lower than the same period last year and 2.2 percentage points lower than in 2012. In terms of consumption patterns, retail sales of goods increased by 11.1%, and catering revenue fell by 4.2%. It is worth noting that Beijing's online sales performance was active. In the quarter, wholesale and retail enterprises above the designated size realized online retail sales of 21.44 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 57.1%.

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The consumer goods ^[3] market is the basis of the entire market system, and all other markets are derived from it. Therefore, the consumer goods market is the final market realization process in social reproduction, and it reflects the opposite and unified relationship between the final supply and the final demand of society.

The consumer goods market has the following characteristics:

(1) The consumer goods market involves millions of households and all members of society, and everyone in the society is a consumer;

(2) The consumer goods market is characterized by diversity and variability due to social demand structure, form diversity, and variability;

(3) The market transaction volume is not necessarily large, but the number of transactions may be large. The consumer goods market is closely related to people's daily lives. It reflects the ultimate market realization of the social reproduction process and reflects the changes in the final consumer demand. As a final product market, the consumer goods market is closely related to other commodity markets, and it reflects the development of the entire national economy.

The role of the consumer market:

(1) The development of the capital market is always constrained by the consumer goods market. When the consumer goods market is booming, supply and demand will drive social investment to increase, thereby activating the capital market;

(2) The increase in consumer demand and the expansion of market trading objects will further stimulate the increase in supply and the expansion of production scale, which will also lead to an increase in demand for labor in the labor market. The satisfaction of the supply of consumer goods directly determines the quality of labor. The interests that continue in this way will soon be felt.