Cream skimming
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title:
Cream skimming
text:
Cream skimming is a pejorative conceptual metaphor used to refer to the perceived business practice of a company providing a product or a service to only the high-value or low-cost customers of that product or service, while disregarding clients that are less profitable for the company. The term derives from the practice of extracting cream from fresh milk at a dairy, in which a separator draws off the cream from fresh or raw milk. The cream has now been "skimmed" or captured separately from the
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encyclopedia
description:
Pejorative conceptual metaphor in economics
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cream_skimming
date created:
2008-03-11T17:11:58Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T08:02:02Z
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