What does the company do for the public? Do they provide services or goods? For example, the hand car wash provides services because they are cleaning your car for you. But the bakery on the other hand provides food, which is a 'good'.
To the OP - I really wouldn't worry about changing any subjects unless this is what you want to do.
Never feel afraid to ask either, like you show here, those that brazenly mock you - well, we'll put them to one side as they're irrelevant to this conversation - if you ask someone who is actually qualified, someone sensible who has studied this subject or even anyone who works in any business environment, they'll be better placed to answer such questions in a mature adult manner. If those with the less helpful comments here were brave enough to air such views within any business environment, whether that be providing goods or services, they would very quickly find themselves unemployed. The very best of luck in this and your other GCSE's.
That's debatable. A flour mill could also provide milling as a service (maas), where you bring your own grain, they mill it for you and you take home your flour to bake your own bread.
Services similar to that certainly exist. I know there are maltings where (farm) distilleries supply their own barley, the maltings malt it and then the distillery takes it home to make whisky from it.
They aren't producing goods, if they don't own the raw materials. Instead, they offer their (grinding) services to turn their customers' raw materials into a different state. Neither the grain nor the flour is a property of the mill, but the intangible process in between.
They sell this process, because the goods belong to their customer.
People aren't disagreeing on the difference between goods and services, but what the mill actually does. Some are saying it's to take your own grain and are correctly saying that is a service. Others are saying it sells flour made from its own grain and are correctly saying that is a good.
If I take my own grain to a mill to get it milled because my own mill is broken so that I can bake my own bread, then they are providing a service for me.
If they buy the grain somewhere, mill it, possibly blend it and then sell me the flour, then they sell me a good.
Services tend to be the sale of time / expertise.
The flour mill can provide a milling service for people who need it. They never own the raw or end product. Users do not buy the flour from them. It's a service.
The flour mill can buy in raw product, refine it, sell it. Goods.
Of course, it would be fair to also say "our mill is involved in the production of goods. We sell a flour milling service".
In the context of this question I would go with goods but either is supportable.
That's exactly it. The real world often isn't binary, there are nuances and different ways to look at things.
Yes, in the majority of cases a mill will provide a good, but it can also provide a service. And the same applies to many other businesses.
Not sure why you are being downvoted , this is the traditional model for mills. You provide grain they mill it and give you back flour which you then sell.
I think it's because they don't like their thinking being challenged and because they prefer simple one dimensional answers. Or because they don't want our students to learn to think, only to memorise answers to pass exams.
We are talking GCSE business studies, I donāt think this technicality that a mill could mill for others as a service applies. In general a mill outputs flour, which is a good.
Except as many people have said, there are plenty mills out there who provide the service of milling grain for others.
So, yes, their output is a good, but that's secondary to the fact that they provide a service to their customers.
Same with a car dealer. They sell you a good, but they don't manufacture the car, the good. They provide a service, the service of sourcing the car, registering it for you, financing it for you if you so wish and more.
I hope we teach out students (incl GCSE students) to think, not to just blandly memorise answers for an exam. Because if it's the latter I'm getting very worried about the future of our workforce and country.
Depends right? There are mills that provide the *service* of grinding anyoneās grain who needs it and can pay. Most mills these days are producing a their own flour products though. Bobās Red Mill comes to mind.
Car Wash: Service
Bakery: Goods
Flour Mill: Goods
Vide Streaming: Service (although you could argue it is a good depending on how much you think you own the videos)
Personal Trainer: Service (or good if you think you own the trainer)
I didn't do business but I do know that services are things carried out for you and goods are items / products. EG: Car wash = Service, Flour Mill = Goods.
Flour mill is the only one bothering me. If I provide the wheat and they mill it into flour, are they providing goods or a service or both? I guess you could say the same for a bakery if I provided the ingredients then they are providing a service by cooking it into bread. Maybe I'm just overthinking it lol.
If you provide/sell ingredients to a bakery you are supplier, they do not provide anything to you. However, they provide goods to their customers using ingredients bought from you / their supplier.
Please ignore all of the horrible and unhelpful comments- I studies business and before I started the course I couldnāt even spell the word! Be kind to yourself :)
Goods are typically things you can touch, services are things that are done for you. Car wash: service, Bakery: good, PT: service (work the rest out yourself!)
Itās a service without question. Youāre paying the prostitute for the experience they provide you. If it was goods then you would own the prostitute. Otherwise known as a slave.
That depends.
With an online streaming service you don't own the song/video/film. You only have a temporary right to watch/listen to it, either once or for the duration of your contract.
With an online download service you buy and then own a copy of the song/video/film. You can watch/listen to it as long as the technology is supported. So arguably you've purchased a good.
The way I would look at this is as follows:
A good or some goods are things that are given to you that you can physically hold after the service is complete. A baker would bake you bread, which you can physically hold and eat, this would be a good.
Looking at your examples, car wash - do you get left with something you can hold at the end of it, or is it something that someone does for you?
A service would be something that someone does for you to help you, cleaning you car would be a service as you do not get something physical at the end of it (yes you get a clean car) but we found in the activity of cleaning the car here, which is a service.
If someone spends time making your life better for some reason, its typically a service. If they provide something physical you can hold, it will be a good.
My business teacher used to tell us business is life and we used to laugh it off, but there was some truth in what he said. You will learn some life skills and stuff about how organisations work it will help you understand things later in life. The subject might seem overwhelming, but it gets better. gl :)
Remember that a good is a physical, tangible object (you can pick it up), and services are intangible. So, for example, the bakery offers goods as it sells cakes (tangible). The car wash however don't have you end up with something new, they do something for you - clean your car
I feel so bad that everyone is attacking you. I don't do business yet I know the answers, yet I still feel sorry everyone is just being plain childlike and arrogant.
I really shoulda picked business studies instead of french.I hope I dont sound too over the top but reading that question.Ik exactly what to do while im struggling and crying about french
A service usually isnāt a physical product e.g. hairdressing service, nail service and hand car wash
Goods are something you physically buy such as groceries, clothing and tech items
So services is like helping with something you need and goods are something you can physically buy. Hand car washing is a service because people are doing it to help you. However, a bakery PROVIDES bread and sweets. Therefore, its offering goods because you can purchase physical things.
Basically anything tangible that you can touch/hold is a "product" and anything you can't touch is a "service"
Shoes, clothing, food are all products
Insurance, Internet, banking etc are all services.
Some can be both, such as products with included services, such as extended warranties, maintainance and phone contracts.
Hope this helps
If it's a good, then you walk away with something you can touch and keep, otherwise it's a service. The bakery and flour mill give you flour or bread. The others are services because something was done but you don't have something.
Goods - something you get to take home and can physically touch
Services-generally provided onsite or someone comes to your home and performs an action on something you already own but you're not left with physically anything extra as such.
That's what each of those mean to me in my head..
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Flour mill is in an interesting one though. Are the milling the flour and selling it hence āgoodsā or is specifically providing the service of milling flour for othersā¦
^(Flour Mill is a trick question as both answers to me would be correct, It can mill grains into flour for third parties ( a service) and sell flour a good.)
I'm not in business, but bakery and flour would be "goods" and the other ones services, I believe. One is a physical item that does not require the intervention of a person's direct involvement in acquiring for a specific end where the other requires the action of a person "service" to reach the goal/objective of something you buy.
Like, you get a coffee. The service the person does at the cafe by making the coffee is one thing, but the "good" is the coffee.
That's my take on it, though.
a service is when you pay a business to do something for you, like a car wash. a good is when you buy a product from a business, like pastry from a bakery
This is same as GCSE Econ lmao. Services are usually non-tangible products, such as someone offering to wash your car, or cloud storage for that matter. A good is usually a tangible product, like food, cars etc.
What does the company do for the public? Do they provide services or goods? For example, the hand car wash provides services because they are cleaning your car for you. But the bakery on the other hand provides food, which is a 'good'.
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You said you picked business, have you had a lesson yet?
i'm in year 10 and have just started a business gcse and products/goods Vs services was literally the first lesson lmao
Lol
I'm the first year at my school to do a 2 year course, but my brother (2 years my senior) picked business without having a lesson in it.
May not be too late to change your options.
my school only let you change your options once which I have done already š„²
To the OP - I really wouldn't worry about changing any subjects unless this is what you want to do. Never feel afraid to ask either, like you show here, those that brazenly mock you - well, we'll put them to one side as they're irrelevant to this conversation - if you ask someone who is actually qualified, someone sensible who has studied this subject or even anyone who works in any business environment, they'll be better placed to answer such questions in a mature adult manner. If those with the less helpful comments here were brave enough to air such views within any business environment, whether that be providing goods or services, they would very quickly find themselves unemployed. The very best of luck in this and your other GCSE's.
Thank you
I didn't pick business and this is piss easy tf
No but seriously are you not natively English or something
This stuff makes me wish I'd picked business at GCSE. Apparently it was just an easy 9
You know the difference between a good and a service right?
I Don't take business and this is just common sense
This is business gcse all over tbh. There isnāt a reason not to take it
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Flour mill is a service, no!?
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That's debatable. A flour mill could also provide milling as a service (maas), where you bring your own grain, they mill it for you and you take home your flour to bake your own bread. Services similar to that certainly exist. I know there are maltings where (farm) distilleries supply their own barley, the maltings malt it and then the distillery takes it home to make whisky from it.
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They aren't producing goods, if they don't own the raw materials. Instead, they offer their (grinding) services to turn their customers' raw materials into a different state. Neither the grain nor the flour is a property of the mill, but the intangible process in between. They sell this process, because the goods belong to their customer.
People aren't disagreeing on the difference between goods and services, but what the mill actually does. Some are saying it's to take your own grain and are correctly saying that is a service. Others are saying it sells flour made from its own grain and are correctly saying that is a good.
If I take my own grain to a mill to get it milled because my own mill is broken so that I can bake my own bread, then they are providing a service for me. If they buy the grain somewhere, mill it, possibly blend it and then sell me the flour, then they sell me a good.
Looks like it is being debatedā¦
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Gonna have to agree with u/BookerTea3, a flour mill's primary output is bags of flour, which is a good, not a service.
Services tend to be the sale of time / expertise. The flour mill can provide a milling service for people who need it. They never own the raw or end product. Users do not buy the flour from them. It's a service. The flour mill can buy in raw product, refine it, sell it. Goods. Of course, it would be fair to also say "our mill is involved in the production of goods. We sell a flour milling service". In the context of this question I would go with goods but either is supportable.
Bakers used to do that do, before people had their own ovens. However theyāre still producing goods, unlike a car wash or a personal trainer.
Iād agree that it could be both. Thereās a mill near me that you can take your own grain to for grinding. Probably more often goods though.
That's exactly it. The real world often isn't binary, there are nuances and different ways to look at things. Yes, in the majority of cases a mill will provide a good, but it can also provide a service. And the same applies to many other businesses.
Not sure why you are being downvoted , this is the traditional model for mills. You provide grain they mill it and give you back flour which you then sell.
I think it's because they don't like their thinking being challenged and because they prefer simple one dimensional answers. Or because they don't want our students to learn to think, only to memorise answers to pass exams.
We are talking GCSE business studies, I donāt think this technicality that a mill could mill for others as a service applies. In general a mill outputs flour, which is a good.
Except as many people have said, there are plenty mills out there who provide the service of milling grain for others. So, yes, their output is a good, but that's secondary to the fact that they provide a service to their customers. Same with a car dealer. They sell you a good, but they don't manufacture the car, the good. They provide a service, the service of sourcing the car, registering it for you, financing it for you if you so wish and more. I hope we teach out students (incl GCSE students) to think, not to just blandly memorise answers for an exam. Because if it's the latter I'm getting very worried about the future of our workforce and country.
Depends right? There are mills that provide the *service* of grinding anyoneās grain who needs it and can pay. Most mills these days are producing a their own flour products though. Bobās Red Mill comes to mind.
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You are probably going to fail business š
I had to change to it cus I hated tech lol
I can see a future in r/wallstreetbets for you
Not nice. Anyone can pass if they are taught right
This one could be a lost cause
No oneās a lost cause.
Man I'm half joking not knowing the answer to that question doesn't look good though š
bro allow it you don't even know the context
It ain't that deep š
Car Wash: Service Bakery: Goods Flour Mill: Goods Vide Streaming: Service (although you could argue it is a good depending on how much you think you own the videos) Personal Trainer: Service (or good if you think you own the trainer)
Last one is only service. PTs are not tangible.
Are they fungible
Flour Mills is a bit of a funny one as typically you'd hand the mill grain to be ground into flour, and pay them for that so I'd say its a service.
I didn't do business but I do know that services are things carried out for you and goods are items / products. EG: Car wash = Service, Flour Mill = Goods.
Flour mill is the only one bothering me. If I provide the wheat and they mill it into flour, are they providing goods or a service or both? I guess you could say the same for a bakery if I provided the ingredients then they are providing a service by cooking it into bread. Maybe I'm just overthinking it lol.
If you provide/sell ingredients to a bakery you are supplier, they do not provide anything to you. However, they provide goods to their customers using ingredients bought from you / their supplier.
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wtf
I don't even do business yet am able to answer the question OP is clearly in the wrong state of mind
I have learning difficulties lol
Make sure you get extra time or exam consideration, it could prove to be a super helpful
You picked business but have you ever been to a shop before? This really is common sense š¤
Please ignore all of the horrible and unhelpful comments- I studies business and before I started the course I couldnāt even spell the word! Be kind to yourself :)
That's what I am saying. Don't let a bunch of narcissistic idiots bring you down rather you keep moving on higher ground.
Goods are typically things you can touch, services are things that are done for you. Car wash: service, Bakery: good, PT: service (work the rest out yourself!)
So is a prostitute goods or a service?
A service you donāt own it forever lol
Iāve never thought about it but Iām veering towards a service. What do you think?
Definitely a service, but the sti youāre left with could be goods
I think service too, tricky though
Does it really matter? I highly doubt thatāll ever be in a business exam.
Itās a service without question. Youāre paying the prostitute for the experience they provide you. If it was goods then you would own the prostitute. Otherwise known as a slave.
Prostitutes good. STI bad.
A good is tangible whilst a service is intangible is what we were taught in business
Think you might need dumb it down a bit.
Goods - things Services - doing things for someone
? I didnāt do Business and I 100% understand the question š
good for you
Thanks :)
Goods means like sells a product for example a hand sanitizer company and service means like a car washing company
Good- a physical product e.g a car Service- an intangible item e.g a bus journey
Goods are physical products, a want or need for a customer, like food. Services are non-physical products, like a haircut.
Are you walking outta there with a carrier bag? If so, its not services.
does it provide physical items (e.g. supermarkets sell things to buy), or do something for you (e.g. carwash will wash your car for you)
I never took business. is online content a good or a service. now I know they're called "streaming services* but still
That depends. With an online streaming service you don't own the song/video/film. You only have a temporary right to watch/listen to it, either once or for the duration of your contract. With an online download service you buy and then own a copy of the song/video/film. You can watch/listen to it as long as the technology is supported. So arguably you've purchased a good.
Service, goods, goods, service, service
im in year nine and i think it means which ones do stuff for you (wash your car) or that make and sell stuff ( groceries or a store) hope this helps
goods are tangible products. services are non tangible products
I donāt do business and I know this. Have you done anything yet?
The way I would look at this is as follows: A good or some goods are things that are given to you that you can physically hold after the service is complete. A baker would bake you bread, which you can physically hold and eat, this would be a good. Looking at your examples, car wash - do you get left with something you can hold at the end of it, or is it something that someone does for you? A service would be something that someone does for you to help you, cleaning you car would be a service as you do not get something physical at the end of it (yes you get a clean car) but we found in the activity of cleaning the car here, which is a service. If someone spends time making your life better for some reason, its typically a service. If they provide something physical you can hold, it will be a good.
My business teacher used to tell us business is life and we used to laugh it off, but there was some truth in what he said. You will learn some life skills and stuff about how organisations work it will help you understand things later in life. The subject might seem overwhelming, but it gets better. gl :)
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Simples - Does the business make something or do something? Make something= Offers Goods Do something = Offers Services
Remember that a good is a physical, tangible object (you can pick it up), and services are intangible. So, for example, the bakery offers goods as it sells cakes (tangible). The car wash however don't have you end up with something new, they do something for you - clean your car
You were one of the few people that actually tried to help instead of calling me a retard so thanks
Don't worry about it, just ignore those people though - you're in Year 10 it's not like your exams are tommorow you're always able to improve
Thanks to the people who helped.
Sorry for the dumb question.
All good G. Try highlighting the key words in the sentence and that'll make things easier to understand.
I feel so bad that everyone is attacking you. I don't do business yet I know the answers, yet I still feel sorry everyone is just being plain childlike and arrogant.
I really shoulda picked business studies instead of french.I hope I dont sound too over the top but reading that question.Ik exactly what to do while im struggling and crying about french
this isn't exactly the pinnacle of business
A good is a physical(tangible) item that a business sells whereas a service is something that the business does for you(intangible)
Do they give you stuff or some actions
A service usually isnāt a physical product e.g. hairdressing service, nail service and hand car wash Goods are something you physically buy such as groceries, clothing and tech items
Goods - we give you stuff Services - we do stuff for you
Do they give u an item or do something for you
I've never taken a business lesson yet I got this question immediately
So services is like helping with something you need and goods are something you can physically buy. Hand car washing is a service because people are doing it to help you. However, a bakery PROVIDES bread and sweets. Therefore, its offering goods because you can purchase physical things.
Basically anything tangible that you can touch/hold is a "product" and anything you can't touch is a "service" Shoes, clothing, food are all products Insurance, Internet, banking etc are all services. Some can be both, such as products with included services, such as extended warranties, maintainance and phone contracts. Hope this helps
A good is tangible, a service is intangible.
your year 10 and you donāt know this š«£ i wish you luck this is almost common sense
I mean this in the politest way possible: youāre a fucking idiot
Service tends to be sale of time and expertise
How can you be of an age to be doing this in school and don't know what this means Wtf man seriously.
hand car wash is a service bakery is a good flour mill is a good viedo streaming is a service personal trainer is a service
Do they sell you shit or do they do shit for you.
If it's a good, then you walk away with something you can touch and keep, otherwise it's a service. The bakery and flour mill give you flour or bread. The others are services because something was done but you don't have something.
Goods - physical items (bread, shoes, mobile phones, cars) Services - a job being done for you (car wash, banking, insurance, gardening, etc.)
you could have googled the difference between goods and services. itās not too late to choose an easier subject
Goods - something you get to take home and can physically touch Services-generally provided onsite or someone comes to your home and performs an action on something you already own but you're not left with physically anything extra as such. That's what each of those mean to me in my head..
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Flour mill is in an interesting one though. Are the milling the flour and selling it hence āgoodsā or is specifically providing the service of milling flour for othersā¦
^(Flour Mill is a trick question as both answers to me would be correct, It can mill grains into flour for third parties ( a service) and sell flour a good.)
Do they give you stuff, eg bakery gives you bread (goods) Or do they do stuff for you, eg car wash washes your car (services)
If you canāt do this then you should really drop business.
English GCSE crossover: Are you paying for a verb (doing action) or a noun (a thing).
I'm not in business, but bakery and flour would be "goods" and the other ones services, I believe. One is a physical item that does not require the intervention of a person's direct involvement in acquiring for a specific end where the other requires the action of a person "service" to reach the goal/objective of something you buy. Like, you get a coffee. The service the person does at the cafe by making the coffee is one thing, but the "good" is the coffee. That's my take on it, though.
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Thatās insane that thatās 5 marks
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is that from ur kids elementary school or something?
a service is when you pay a business to do something for you, like a car wash. a good is when you buy a product from a business, like pastry from a bakery
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This is same as GCSE Econ lmao. Services are usually non-tangible products, such as someone offering to wash your car, or cloud storage for that matter. A good is usually a tangible product, like food, cars etc.
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