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Disposable Income
Baby Boomers have a LOT to say about their disposable
income. I am encouraged to create a 'hall of shame' for companies who
ignore our mighty wallets to focus on 'youth markets'. It might
happen.
What is the FOCUS of baby boomer related product marketing?
Check your spam email boxes, it is most likely E.D. enhancing products.
Wrinkle reducing creams and botox injections rank a close second. I
would LOVE to feature companies and products focused on and catering to Baby
Boomers. If you know any, send to me via email link at the bottom of
this page.
Look in department stores! My favorite 'upscale'
department has ONE brand of jeans specifically geared to baby boomer women.
What is THAT about? Baby Boomer women as an entity do not care for
jeans that display bum cracks or thongs. Thongs? Don't get me
started. Don't even know or care what one is supposed to do about
that.
Men complain about droopy bum sloppy loose fit jeans and
ditto on the shirts and dress wear. Men tell me that the only reason
they wear nothing but golf shirts is there is NOTHING else available that
suits their sense of style, comfort and attitude.
What do baby boomer product researchers really know about
our expectations for products and services? The ad links on this page
probably include one or two links claiming to understand how to market to
baby boomers.
Tell me true, has any one ever actually ASKED you - Baby
Boomer - what you want to spend your money on? Do any of those so
called boomer experts and product designers really understand the power of
our economic force? One Yay-who I talked with actually told me
that they focus on the youth market because of the billions of dollars spent
by youth. It did not enter his MBA micro mentality that the reason he
and his ilk don't sell products to baby boomers is because we don't want
what he has to sell?
Have some fun sometime while shopping. Watch others of
your age group picking up wrinkled shirts with offensive imprints and then
throw them down. Then look around at fashion. In the women's
world, you've got the 'Misses' section full of polyester elastic waisted
pants and shirts favored by 80 yr olds. Or you've got the Juniors with
clothing so obscene and poorly designed as to cause heart palpitations.
The topic of women's fashion is a passion of mine and it
will come up again in a future survey topic write-up.
For now, read more about how Baby Boomers spend their
disposable income.....
Baby Boomer
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