whats the diffrence between consumer and customer?

Question

management

Answer 1

a customer is someone who purchases your product that you're selling, a consumer is someone who consumes a service or product that is free. i work for a non-profit agency and we assist people with disabilities to live independently, we call them consumers rather than clients like the mental retardation centers do.

Answer 2

Consumer is one who directly consumes the product or service you are offering.

While the Customer might use such a mentioned product or service to furthur procure into another finished product for sale / or lease to another end user. The Customer at times can also be the Consumer.

Answer 3

Customer is the person who goes into the store and buys the product the consumer is the user of the product.

ie

if you went to the supermarket and bought shampoo and bough some cinema tickets for your little brother. you would be the customer, your mother would be the supermarket consumer and your little brother the ticket consumer.

I hope thats clear enough.

Answer 4

A customer is someone who makes use of the paid products of an individual or organization. T

consumer is one who uses goods/services within an economic system

Answer 5

Consumer is the person who will consume the goods by himself, customer is somebody who is buying but not necessarily consuming (eg. mother is buying baby food)

Answer 6

ok here it goes how i see it,
I have a shoe factory (figurative), everyone who uses my brand are consumers for my product,
i have a retail store (again figurative) everyone who walks in and buys some of the many articles i have for sale is a costumer

Answer 7

they both mean the same thing