Perishability is used in marketing to describe the way in which service capacity cannot be stored for sale in the future. It is a key concept of services marketing.1
Other key characteristics of services include intangibility, inseparability, fluctuating demand, pricing of services, heterogeneity and variability.
References
References
- Palmer, Adrian (2005). Principles of Services Marketing. London: McGraw Hill. p. 37. ISBN 0-07-710794-2.