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15-414: Created on 1 January 2015, it succeeded the urban community of Toulouse, which had itself succeeded in 2009 and 2001 from previous districts created in 1992 with less power than either the urban community or the current metropolitan region. Due to local political feuds, Toulouse Métropole only hosts 59% of the population of the metropolitan area (see infobox at Toulouse article for the metropolitan area),

30-547: A capitalist system and form a fundamental part of any economy. Without consumer demand , producers would lack one of the key motivations to produce: to sell to consumers. The consumer also forms one end of the chain of distribution . Recently in marketing , instead of marketers generating broad demographic profiles and Fisio-graphic profiles of market segments , marketers have started to engage in personalized marketing , permission marketing , and mass customization to target potential consumers. Largely due to

45-477: A clear political significance. Concern over the interests of consumers has spawned consumer activism , where organized activists do research, education and advocacy to improve the offer of products and services. Consumer education has been incorporated into some school curricula. There are also various non-profit publications, such as Which? , Consumer Reports and Choice magazine , dedicated to assist in consumer education and decision making. In India,

60-471: A community committee is decided by the subdistrict government. A community committee is directly elected and consists of 5 to 9 members; it is responsible to the residents assembly, which consists of all residents in the community who are at or above the age of 18. Consumer A consumer is a person or a group who intends to order, or use purchased goods , products, or services primarily for personal, social , family, household and similar needs, who

75-474: A notion of the consumer in relation to consumer protection laws, and the definition of consumer is often restricted to living persons (not corporations or businesses) and excludes commercial users. A typical legal rationale for protecting the consumer is based on the notion of policing market failures and inefficiencies, such as inequalities of bargaining power between a consumer and a business. As all potential voters are also consumers, consumer protection has

90-422: Is a community , usually a small town or city , that is composed mostly of residents , as opposed to commercial businesses and/or industrial facilities, all three of which are considered to be the three main types of occupants of the typical community. Residential communities are typically communities that help support more commercial or industrial communities with consumers and workers . That phenomenon

105-1055: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Urban community Provinces Autonomous regions Sub-provincial autonomous prefectures Autonomous prefectures Leagues (Aimag) (abolishing) Prefectures Provincial-controlled cities Provincial-controlled counties Autonomous counties County-level cities Districts Ethnic districts Banners (Hoxu) Autonomous banners Shennongjia Forestry District Liuzhi Special District Wolong Special Administrative Region Workers and peasants districts Ethnic townships Towns Subdistricts Subdistrict bureaux Sum Ethnic sum County-controlled districts County-controlled district bureaux (obsolete) Management committees Town-level city Areas Villages · Gaqa · Ranches Village Committees Communities Capital cities New areas Autonomous administrative divisions National Central Cities History: before 1912 , 1912–49 , 1949–present A residential community

120-531: Is not directly related to entrepreneurial or business activities. The term most commonly refers to a person who purchases goods and services for personal use. "Consumers, by definition, include us all", said President John F. Kennedy , offering his definition to the United States Congress on March 15, 1962. This speech became the basis for the creation of World Consumer Rights Day, now celebrated on March 15. In his speech, John Fitzgerald Kennedy outlined

135-540: Is probably because some people prefer not to live in an urban or industrial area, but rather a suburban or rural setting. For that reason, they are also called dormitory towns , bedroom communities , or commuter towns . An example of residential community would include a small town or city outside a larger city or a large town located near a smaller but more commercially- or industrially-centered town or city, for instance Taitou in Gaocun, Wuqing, and Tianjin, China. In

150-509: The People's Republic of China , a community ( 社区 ), also called residential unit or residential quarter ( 小区 ) or neighbourhood ( 居民区 ) or residential community ( 居住区 ), is an urban residential area and its residents administrated by a subdistrict ( 街道办事处 ). Communities are generally organized around a territory consisting of 100 to 700 households. The reform that created residential communities as local government in their current form

165-497: The collapse of the previously existing social institutions ( danwei ) during the mid-1990s. Shequ were supposed to relieve the state of certain duties and responsibilities by transferring them to citizens participating in the shequ. They take over responsibilities which in democratic states are assumed by organisations of the civil community. Each community has a community committee, neighborhood committee or residents' committee ( 社区居民委员会 ). The creation, adjustment or dissolution of

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180-418: The integral responsibility to consumers from their respective governments to help exercise consumers' rights, including: In an economy , a consumer buys goods or services primarily for consumption and not for resale or for commercial purposes. Consumers pay some amount of money (or equivalent) for goods or services. ) then consume (use up). As such, consumers play a vital role in the economic system of

195-450: The other independent communes of the metropolitan area having refused to join in, notably Muret and the technopolis of Labège -Innopole. Consequently, the other parts of the metropolitan area have formed different intercommunal structures, such as: The 37 communes of Toulouse Métropole are: 43°41′N 1°27′E  /  43.683°N 1.450°E  / 43.683; 1.450 This Haute-Garonne geographical article

210-451: The rise of the Internet , consumers are shifting more and more toward becoming prosumers , consumers who are also producers (often of information and media on the social web ) - they influence the products created (e.g. by customization, crowdfunding or publishing their preferences), actively participate in the production process , or use interactive products . The law primarily uses

225-492: Was called shèqū (社区). Originally, these organizations consisted of participating citizens and chiefs, the latter ones being installed by the central governance. Shequ represented an attempt to restructure the relationship between state and urban community in China. The social anthropologist Fei Xiaotong is considered the first to have proposed the introduction of the idea of shequ in China. The introduction of shequ started after

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