inferior goods
Americanplural noun
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Giffen Goods are not superior goods at all, they are inferior goods.
From Forbes ● Nov. 23, 2014
The Soviet legal code outlaws a whole range of economic activities, such as conducting a private business, acquiring foreign currency, and delivering inferior goods for sale on the Soviet market.
From Time Magazine Archive
The program proclaims that inefficient workers and factories will not be rewarded and that the consumer must be protected against high prices and inferior goods caused by "the monopoly position" of state enterprises.
From Time Magazine Archive
Unprized Packaging Sir: Recessional Sir: How can anyone call this a depression when the consumer is paying inflation prices for inferior goods and services?
From Time Magazine Archive
The sellers are usually small hucksters who buy up inferior goods, and can sell them cheaply by reason of their badness.
From The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Florence Kelley
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