However, support for traditional measurements has gone beyond shoppers merely expressing a consumer preference.
She added that despite that consumer preference, there were still ways to make money on line.
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After that, the money prices of goods change with great regularity for reasons ranging from consumer preference to productivity enhancements.
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Methodologies to sense movement in consumer preference allow the marketer to refine the value proposition offering and approach to the customer.
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Most SUVs are powered by diesel, which is subsidized in India and costs less than gasoline, helping change consumer preference to such vehicles.
Focus group research presented in the report, The Smart Way to Display, shows a consumer preference for simplicity in visual displays of energy use.
Rather, the decline is likely a voluntary decision by consumers to take on less debt and could signal an increasing consumer preference for debit cards.
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"The drop is due to a consumer preference for non-mail order, not by a diminishing preference for remote shopping, " says Richard Hyman, from retail specialist Verdict Research.
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In both the U.S. and China, respondents of all age groups and income levels expressed a concern for quality, a key driver of the consumer preference for U.S.-made products.
The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend is one of the more dramatic results of the consumerization of IT, in which consumer preference, not corporate initiative, drives the adoption of technologies in the enterprise.
Unless powerful federal intervention forces Americans to buy General Motors products like the Volt, consumer preference is likely to be strongest for smart, fuel efficient brands built largely in towns from southern Ohio down to Texas.
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Another key factor could be an increased consumer preference for debit cards, which let consumers enjoy similar loyalty and reward programs in addition to the convenience of making card payments without incurring interest expense on the outstanding balance.
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There will be the obvious booking fee revenue stream, of course, but in the process of offering consumers massively more information to guide travel decisions, Routehappy will also be building a completely unparalleled collection of consumer preference data.
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Although the research cited in the post describes trends associated with consumer preference for self-service, rather than live-service, Dixon and Ponomareff extrapolate these results to argue that, when it comes right down to it, customers may not be all that interested in building relationships with companies.
What's more, the results are ordered by the Consumer Merchant Preference (CMP) ranking, which prioritizes results using consumers' aggregate purchasing and search preferences (this is similar to how PageRank works with the Google search engine).
In fact, all programming exists at a certain level of abstraction, from machine language on up to preference settings in consumer user interfaces.
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And in a social age, the consumer should be able to state a preference for how he or she is pitched.
Research by consumer group Which? found signing up to the free Telephone Preference Service (TPS) cuts cold calls by a third.
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