Supermarkets are full, though largely with imported products that are too expensive for the majority of the population.

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For the vast majority of brand products, the marketing medium is the vehicle for messaging.

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One problem: Given that we know that a majority of new products fail in the market, unwavering fixation looks like a bad bet.

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This week, Google announced that, effective March 1st, it would be creating a single view of users across the majority of its products and services, and creating a single, simplified, global privacy policy to cover the new approach.

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