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Need Always Beats Want (But Especially Now)
Published 7 days ago • 1 min read
More buyers are replacing what broke than upgrading what works. And that changes how you should position your product. Recent data from Hardware Retailing shows a shift in home-improvement and consumer durables: People aren’t shopping for themselves because they want nicer things right now. They’re shopping because something broke, is about to break, or can’t be repaired cheaply enough. That’s a fundamentally different buying psychology. Upgrade purchases invite comparison, hesitation … and...
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