section_path: Key characteristics/Perishability
section_name: Perishability
paragraph_text: Perishability
  
  Services are perishable in two regards:
  
  The service provider must deliver the service at the exact time of service consumption. The service is not manifested in a physical object that is independent of the provider. The service consumer is also inseparable from service delivery. Examples: The service consumer must sit in the hairdresser's chair, or in the airplane seat. Correspondingly, the hairdresser or the pilot must be in the shop or plane, respectively, to deliver the service.