Part of me thinks there may be, but the way you sometimes see them used interchangeably also makes me think that consumer has taken on much of the same meaning as customer. Maybe depends on from which context you’re speaking, i.e. out/in business?
Part of me thinks there may be, but the way you sometimes see them used interchangeably also makes me think that consumer has taken on much of the same meaning as customer. Maybe depends on from which context you’re speaking, i.e. out/in business?
It depends on context whether or not the terms are interchangeable. A customer is generally the party who buys something in an individual transaction, while a consumer is more like the economic force that creates demand for a thing to be bought and sold.