Consumers responsibility

Tier 3 Less tangible costs, such as consumer response and confidence, employee relations, corporate image, etc. 

The water supply authorities normally insist that (for uses other than drinking-water taps) their main should discharge into a break-pressure vessel, after which the water quality becomes the consumers responsibility. The water tank should be covered against tramp dirt and access by birds, etc., and it must be shielded from sunlight to avoid the growth of algae. Nevertheless, access must be maintained for easy inspection. The distribution pipework is preferably all plastic and lead must be avoided altogether. The use of copper is doubtful with some corrosive waters, and soldered joints in it can lead to unacceptable concentrations of lead in the water. 

Wansink, B., Response to Measuring consumer response to food products sensory tests that predict consumer acceptance. Food Qual. Pref, 14, 23, 2003. 

Jeremiah L E (1994), Consumer responses to pork loin chops with different degrees of muscle quality in two western Canadian cities , Can J Anirn Sci, 74, 425 -32. 

A third path for research is to study associations between system change and improvement, on the one hand, and public and consumer responses, on the other. In particular, what are the conditions for the development and maintenance of trustworthiness and satisfaction through organisational and communicative procedures With better knowledge of consumer demands and improved quantification of risks and benefits to health, the future trend is likely to point towards increased differentiation, with different products targeting consumer groups with different priorities. Some consumers will demand more convenience, while others will invest in participatory community farm schemes that allow direct involvement in the production and preparation of their food. 

VII. Using Precrisis Preparation to Manage Consumer Responses... 

Yet just as all people are not alike, neither are all food crises alike. They can vary in their familiarity, severity, proximity, consequence, and the extent to which they can be avoided. This review covers a wide range of crises from bacteria contamination, to product tampering, to fears related to irradiation and biotechnology. Different types of crises will be evaluated differently by different groups of consumers. What has been done in this review is to focus on worst-case scenarios involving initial responses to food safety issues. These will provide the most clear and illustrative profiles of consumer response. Less extreme scenarios will elicit less extreme responses. 

In reality, consumer response is more sophisticated. Different segments respond differently, and precrisis considerations (such as previous knowledge and precrisis communication) need to be accounted for. Therefore, a more complete and useful framework of how consumers respond to food crises is presented in Figure 2. 

Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) and Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR) both are operations models in the consumer goods industry to ensure delivery capability and avoid stockouts based on an automated replenishment of outlets using product inventory, historic and/or planned sales information at the point-of-sales (POS). CPFR focuses on a close cooperation between retailer and manufacturer. ECR focus on the customer-facing reaction on customer responses in logistics, sales and promotions. 

The least tangible of the economic factors that might be considered in evaluating pollution prevention projects are gronped into the third tier of costs. Consumer responses to improved product quality or improved corporate image, employee responses to improved environmental stewardship, and potential improvements in worker health and safety due to pollution prevention could all be considered. Such factors are even more difficult to quantitatively evalnate than tier 1 and tier 2 costs. 

More general enquiries tend to originate from the education system and it is interesting to speculate how many GCSEs the average consumer response operative has earned on behalf of enquiring young consumers. 

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Grunert, K. G. and Wills, J. M. (2007). A review of European research on consumer response to nutrition information on food labels. J. Public Flealth 15, 385-399. 

Numerous factors play a role in the behavioral response of consumers to novel foods and beverages. Of particular importance are their sensory and overall quality, and attitudinal or personality variables of potential consumers (5). Another significant factor that can affect consumer response is the available information on the products and the story behind a product. Thus, the lack of familiarity and access as well as the lack of scientific information on the chemical composition, quality parameters and health benefits of herbal teas from Africa, may certainly limit the access to western oriented and Asian new food and beverage markets (<5). 

Tier 3 Opportunity cost related to consumer responses, employee... 

A perfume company such as Quest International establishes a perfume and product profile based on large studies of consumer responses (acquired from consumers of different age groups and social profiles) to different perfumes in different products in different countries over a number of years. At the same time, a profile is built of changing social patterns and how this affects acceptance of different perfume styles. As part of our on-going studies of evaluative responses to odour types a profile is also built of the feelings or images that are conveyed by different odours. 

Another form of direct pressure on prices, with a particularly negative impact on the image of the pharmaceutical industry, is US consumers response to increased out-of-pocket costs (re)importing dmgs, mainly from Canada, where drag prices are on average 58% of US prices... 

LUNDGREN B (1981). Effect of nutritional information on consumer responses. In Criteria of food acceptance symposium proceedings, eds J Solms, R L Hall, Zurich Forster, 27-33. 

Bonnet, C., and Simioni, M., 2001, Assessing Consumer Response to Protected Designation of Origin Labelling A Mixed Multinomial Logit Approach, European Review of Agricultural Economics, 28(4) 433-449. 

Bocker, A. (2002) Consumer response to a food safety incident exploring the role of supplier differentiation in an experimental study. European Review of Agricultural Economics 29 (I), 29-50. 

Menghi, A. (1997), Consumer Response to Ecological Milk in Sweden , Swedish Agricultural... 

Scott, C. A., and Yalch, R. F. (1980), Consumer Response to Initial Trial A Bayesian Analysis, Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 7, June, pp. 32-41. 

Greater diffusion of efficient consumer response, defining a process of close collaboration of retailer and manufacturer/supplier to coordinate activities to achieve maximal efficiency and better service levels for the ultimate customer. 

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