We're guided by consumer data, and it helps give us the confidence to invest where the consumer is going.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The world is now awash in data and we can see consumers in a lot clearer ways.
It's important for market participants to have a sense of how we think about the economy and the appropriate path of policy, to look at incoming data, and to form their own judgments as to whether or not changes in policy would be appropriate.
When you focus on the consumer, the consumer responds.
When companies try to guess what consumers want, they essentially make the choice for consumers.
I love market research because you really have an idea of what your consumers are looking for.
Consumer habits are key to understanding how to launch a product.
We need to listen to consumers' needs.
Data is very important, but you have to be good at reading the data in an emotional way. If you look at a selling report, there's an emotional trend to what's selling.
It is customers that decide if we succeed.
Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.