Final Customer Purchasing from an Intermediary of the Product
Use Steps: Use steps include all the Final customer's activities to find the appropriate product category at the Intermediary, to choose among the alternatives to the product and to take delivery of the product.
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Knowledge: Add knowledge
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Process where product is used: Explain how product can or should operate in customer cost system
C. Use
Regular use
| No. | Year | SIC | Note |
| 1 | 1990 | 3949 | Bowl America sends direct mailers to customers, advertises on TV, and distributes an instructional bowling videotape to league bowlers for them to share with their non-bowling friends. |
| 2 | 2003 | 5300 | Tractor Supply Co. hires ranchers, welders, and horsemen at each of its stores to help customers get the right products. Roughly half of its staff has some background in those areas. The extra focus on understanding rural customers' needs is key. |
| 3 | 1999 | 5731 | At many of the new entertainment oriented malls, the focus at the stores owned by the large companies such as Sony and Microsoft isn’t so much to sell as to demonstrate products and to listen to customers. |
| 4 | Undated | 5734 | Many drugstores are specializing in advice and services, even delivering prescriptions to the homes of elderly customers. |
| 5 | 1988 | 5912 | Doctors' offices are selling directly to patients common prescription drugs that have been presorted into standard dosages by a new breed of pharmaceutical "repackaging" houses. |
| 6 | 2005 | 6211 | Fidelity Investments recently added free technology called Wealth-Lab Pro to its active-trader platform. The software allows traders to test their trading theories against historical data. E*Trade upgraded its downloadable active-trader software so that customers can tailor the tools on their trading screens. Scottrade launched ScottradeElite, a downloadable active-trader platform. |
| 7 | 2000 | 6289 | Wingspan Bank has a good bill paying service and comprehensive e-brokerage that includes sizable research offerings. The site offers a requisite financial planning center and a chat room forum where investors can talk with experts. It is among the top for investment education. |
| 8 | 2000 | 6289 | Charles Schwab's online trading website offers extensive research, planning tools, bill payments, and after hours trading. The company website offers account balances, IPO access, priority routing on phone calls, Internet road shows, conference calls and more research. |
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