Final Customer Purchasing from an Intermediary of the Product
Use Steps: Use steps include all the Final customer's activities to find the appropriate product category at the Intermediary, to choose among the alternatives to the product and to take delivery of the product.
B.
Resources: Reduce resources required for the use of the product
3.
Energy: Reduce the energy the customer uses with the product
A. Effort: Reduce the physical constraints on the customer
Overcome physical limitations of the user
Enable remote usage
| No. | Year | SIC | Note |
| 1 | 2005 | 4841 | Time Warner recently began leasing "multiroom" DVRs, which enable customers to share TV shows stored on one DVR with set-tops in up to three other rooms. |
| 2 | 2003 | 5000 | RiverPark Inc. signed a distribution deal that brings OnStar Systems to RV makers. They sell other electronics such as voice control systems, microwave ovens, satellite receivers, home theatre systems with flat panel monitors and onboard cameras. The list prices range from $800 for tire monitoring systems to $4,785 for a Bose surround sound home theater. |
| 3 | 2002 | 5411 | The online grocery service will appeal to a minority of shoppers– "at most 10 percent. You will always have a small percentage of people who can't leave the house: physically disabled people, elderly people, moms of newborns." |
| 4 | 2000 | 6211 | PC and laptops are most common and easiest to use for online trading. But Schwab is already offering trading via pager. |
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