The product or service offering does not target the premium customer, but rather, the customer positioned at the base of the pyramid. Customers with lower purchasing power benefit from affordable products. The company generates small profits with each product sold, but benefits from the higher sales numbers that usually come with the scale of the customer base.
How they do it: McDonald’s competitive prices make its products attainable to everyone. It’s high degree of standardization and international brand popularity allow the company to offer their products cheap and at a consistent quality.
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How they do it: H&M offers all its products at really low prices. This also includes e.g. formal and business wear, allowing to target a large group of customers with a low purchasing power for clothing.
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How they do it: Denner, with its ”no frills” approach, tries to focus on deliver on the basic needs during grocery shopping. This excludes a complex and nice presentation of goods and a wide choice of products to give the customer the cheapest prices.
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How they do it: Since 2004, Renault and its subsidiary Dacia produce a model called ”Logan”, a small family vehicle targeted at the bottom of the pyramid. To date, it has sold millions of individual units, in countries and regions such as Iran, India, South America, and Eastern Europe. The Logan was designed from the outset as an affordable car, and has many simplified features to keep costs down. It is among the most affordable vehicles available on the market today.
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How they do it: In the 1990s, the company introduced Wheel, a laundry detergent specifically developed for the Indian market, containing a lower oil-to-water ratio to make it suitable to hand wash textiles in rivers, as is frequently the custom in India. The product was distributed through local corner shops as well as door-to-door sales representatives .
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