The external factors relating to such an approach are competition, environmental, cultural and societal changes, and focusing on the consumer helps highlight these changes. For example, in competition, the threat of new entrants, bargaining power of suppliers and buyers and the threat of substitutes help …show more content…
This is because a buyer’s power affects the competitive environment for the seller and influences their ability of profiting as if buyers are strong the sellers can be pushed to lower prices, thus leaving the sellers with low profit potential but creating a competitive market. This transpires when there are a few buyers and many sellers as the cost of switching from one seller to another is low, since there are many sellers, and these sellers may sell similar products. As a result of sellers having homogenous products, in other to get the buyer to purchase the similar product from them, there is an incentive to lower prices, consequently increasing competition between the existing sellers of the akin products as they will be pushed to condense prices …show more content…
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