What are key macroeconomic variables that affect the pet food industry?

Answer 1

GDP - when people have more income, they will be willing to spend more on their pets.

Unemployment - if people are unemployed, they won't be able to afford expensive pet foods and will just buy the cheapest that they can find.

Inflation - when prices are rising, the costs of the meat and other things that pet food is made of will be rising and pet food manufacturers will have to put their prices up.

Wages - these are a cost to manufacturers. If wages are rising, then means that their costs will be going up.

Answer 2

Yes and no. Idol helps people who wouldn't normally have a chance at a music career, but it also makes a mockery out of people who have struggled for years to make it into the business. I have to admit, I watch the show every second season or so. Technology helps to make music more accessible, but it also helps to sell sub-par music. The authenticity of music has been lost. Most albums now are over-produced with machines doing most of the work. Haven't you ever heard a song and thought "Wow! That's a really good song and the artist has such a good voice!" and then heard the performer live and thought "What the hell is that screeching? That's not the same song or person singing it!". And it really isn't the same song or the same person singing it. The album/single was mostly mechanical, but because people don't pay to see machines on a stage, you have to suffer through the human version of a song. With the good comes the bad. If you want a good song or album you need to cover the performers voice with synthesizers and everything else because, let's face it, the talent pool has been drained. Shows like American/Canadian Idol give me hope that out there somewhere there are people who can really sing, and some of the contestants really can, and perform and that not all artists are pre-packaged-talentless crap like the Britney's and Jessica's of the world. And, just for the record, I believe that what hurts the music industry the most is the price of CD's and concerts. To be honest, I have only bought 1 CD in the past 5 years, not counting blanks. If the CD's were cheaper, I would buy more, that is if there were more bands/singers that were worth spending my hard-earned money on. I have only been to one show in 10 years, and I went only because I scored free tickets. I refuse to pay the $70 (or more) per ticket for a show that ends up sounding nothing like the music I hear on the radio or the CD. Sorry, but I can't justify spending $25, or more, on a CD that is mostly machine sung. Don't these performers have big enough houses in L.A., Malibu, Florida, New York, and wherever else they find prime real estate? Do they need to charge their fans so much? Do they really need 20 Rolex watches, 5 bottles of Cristal a day, a different car for everyday of the week, and a new purebred dog in every color to match every single one of the 50 designer purses they own? Until artists start singing honestly and performing to real bands instead of synthetic music tracks, and until they stop ripping off the fans and charging reasonable prices for their merchandise and performances, I'll spend my money on earplugs, thank you very much!

Answer 3

I am not sure what the word you used means. But the the pet food industries try to sell the pet food to the owners of the pets..By their appealing advertisements.