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Commodity products assumption

Is it fair to assume commodity products like food, personal care or smartphones are accessible and affordable to majority of the population in a country for market sizing calculations, so you don't need to segment by age group or income level? You can assume 20-30% don't have access or can't afford it but the rest can?

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Ian
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on Jun 28, 2021
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Hi there,

If you're doing this, then what will you segment by? I'm a bit confused by your approach and highly recommend that you stick to segmenting by age/income for "commodity" products (by the way, personal care and smartphones are not commodity products)

Anonymous B
on Jun 28, 2021

In this case, perhaps you should segment the products instead, like types, quality, or frequency of use/buy in a week/month? 

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Deleted user
on Jun 28, 2021

No, you still need to segement. Not every age group will consume a commodity product e.g. coffee <-> children 

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