The traditional schemes for the classification of goods and
services do not adequately incorporate the marketing char
acteristics of services. However, rather than pose a separate
classification scheme for services, the author proposes a
broadened classification approach to include both goods and
services. Some marketing strategy implications of this clas
sification approach are discussed.
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