Need-Directed Consumers

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Need-Directed Consumers

one of three broad groups of consumers (with outer-directed consumers and inner-directed consumers) identified in the Stanford Research Instituteís survey of American lifestyles. Need-directed consumers, representing about ten per cent of consumers in the U.S., are motivated by need rather than by choice.

See: Inner-Directed Consumers Outer-Directed Consumers

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