It may be hard for today’s consumer to imagine a time when sheets were white, cars were black, shoes were brown, and iceboxes were made of wood. And if you heard your household appliances talk to you, well, you wouldn’t want to admit it.
Of course, those days are gone. Consumer trends have exploded into a colorful era of high tech, high fashion, and highly volatile fads that come and go in a flash. For manufacturers of consumer goods, this fast-changing environment is both problematic and exciting. Keeping up with ever-changing trends requires responsive inventory, predictive analytics, customer insights, on-demand assembly, and an element of luck. That’s the downside.
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