Delve: Are Consumers Spoiled For Choice or Too Overwhelmed to Choose?
Today’s consumers demand and expect a wealth of choices in everything from sneakers to potato chips, but while large product lines provide abundance and variety, they don’t always result in sales—and can even take away from a company’s bottom line. In new marketing research, Desautels Professor Demetrios Vakratsas explores breadth and depth in product lines to determine their role in consumer choice-making today. Will a change in colour or shape make a shopper reach for one product over another or send them to another brand altogether?
For more insights, read the full interview with Professor Vakratsas in and read the research paper: .
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Founded in 2019, Delve is the official thought leadership publication of Ï㽶ÊÓƵ’s Desautels Faculty of Management. Under the direction of Professor Saku Mantere, inaugural Editor-in-Chief, Delve features the latest in management thinking that stretches perspectives, sparks new ideas, and brings clarity to decision-makers at all levels and across sectors.
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