What Do We Call the Practice of Deliberately Designing a Product

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Multiple Choice

What do we call the practice of deliberately designing a product to fail in order to shorten the time between a consumer purchase and a repurchase?

• A) cause-related marketing
• B) repurchase-driven marketing
• C) planned obsolescence
• D) market-timing production

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Definitions:

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