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Planned degradation in product quality
Nature
In order to improve profit margins, commercial enterprises may deliberately choose to gradually diminish the quality of a product whilst continuing to create the impression that it remains unchanged (or is even being improved).
Broader
Lack of quality
Manufacture of substandard products
Quantitative pressure on standards of quality
Related
Planned obsolescence
Aggravated by
Short-term profit maximization
Strategy(ies)
Ensuring competent production of consumer goods
Value(s)
Quality
Degradation
Unplanned
Type
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems