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"Marketing Concept has promoted Consumerism"--Do you agree?

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Question added by VENKITARAMAN KRISHNA MOORTHY VRINDAVAN , Project Execution Manager & Accounts Manager , ALI INTERNATIONAL TRADING EST.
Date Posted: 2014/12/01
padmakumar pathiyil
by padmakumar pathiyil , Marketing Consultant , Management Consultancy

Yes. No doubt about it.

LABIB KOOLI
by LABIB KOOLI , Director of the Sectoral Center for Training in Hotel Technologies at Southern Hammamet , Tunisian Vocational Training Agency (ATFP)

Thanks Krishna !

Absolutely yeah ! Marketing is ever and ever increasing consumption of goods and services.

But the question is if marketing has promoted human lives ?!

As Voltaire said " Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.” 

We are gilty for overconsumption and consumerism !

Shahan Khan
by Shahan Khan , Officer GSP , WWF-Pakistan (Corporate Relations)

Yes, I completely agree.

Alex Al Yazouri
by Alex Al Yazouri , General Manager , Al Mushref Cooperative Society

Yes definitely promoted Consumerism

zafar abbas minhas
by zafar abbas minhas , Freelance Writer , DAILY MASHRAQ

YES SIR,,,,,, THAT IS THE FACT.............

Ibrahim Hussein Mayaleh
by Ibrahim Hussein Mayaleh , Sales & Business Consultant and Trainer , Self-employed

I go with mr. Jetley.

Vinod Jetley
by Vinod Jetley , Assistant General Manager , State Bank of India

Marketing, with its daily presence in the life of the consumers, has been object of criticism. The traditional marketing is examining the needs of the consumers and helps the firms to produce products or services that will satisfy these needs. This production will make profits for the companies, which are paying salaries to their personnel to consume who are consuming these salaries on the markets. Therefore marketing is contributing to the welfare of an economy. The ‘best practices’ of marketing can increase the supply (through the production) and the demand (through the incomes). It also helps to the development of new technologies, the creation of new firms (increase of competition and new jobs), increases the quality of life and contributes to the increase of the social welfare

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