Convenience
Definitions
- 1: a quality or situation that makes something easy or useful for someone by reducing the amount of work or time required to do something
- 2: a time that is appropriate for doing something or that is suitable for someone
- 3: something (such as a device) that makes you more comfortable or allows you to do things more easily
Description
Convenient procedures, products and services are those intended to increase ease in accessibility, save resources (such as time, effort and energy) and decrease frustration. Convenience is a relative concept, and depends on context. For example, automobiles were once considered a convenience, yet today are regarded as a normal part of life.
Service conveniences are those that save shoppers time or effort, and includes variables such as credit availability and extended store hours. Service convenience pertains to the facilitation of selling both goods and services, and combinations of the two.
Convenience stores at filling stations sell items that have nothing to do with gasoline/petrol, but purchasing at that location can save the consumer time compared to another trip to a grocery store. Conveniences such as direct deposit can save companies and consumers money, though this may or may not be passed along to the consumer.[1]
