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Company H is the market leader in one-stop shopping for home-improvement tools and machines. The target market for the firm is do-it-yourselfs who address home projects on their own. In addition to this, they also target the housewives and construction professionals. Special marketing is being done for the housewives from the company in order to address the repairs by their own.
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To discuss: The views of Person X on the hypothesis that was formulated before conducting the research on the way the customer utilizes the buckets and whether observation is enough than obtaining primary data.
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