A pharmacy (due to increased competition from a neighboring supermarket) has added an exclusive line of cosmetics and expanded its line of greeting cards and gift-wrapping items. This strategy illustrates _____
a. scrambled merchandising
b. the retail life cycle
c. the wheel of retailing
d. rationalized retailing
a
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Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. The teamwork movement started because workers felt they were being treated unfairly. 2. Quality circles are a type of team found in Japan. 3. The majority of companies with over 100 employees use at least one type of work team. 4. The study of transnational teams combines research on positive psychology and scientific management.
You are shopping with a good friend. While looking at a sweater, she comments that she never buys clothes produced in China because the use of cheap overseas labour is harmful to U.S. textile workers. This type of belief is known as
A. international protectionism. B. xenophobia. C. consumer ethnocentrism. D. sociocultural bias. E. cultural fit.
Rocky is an adventuresome, risk-taking person who joins a slow-moving, conservative company. Several months later he leaves in frustration. The career-advancement tactic Rocky neglected was
A) work with a mentor. B) take sensible risks. C) develop depth and breadth. D) find a good organization-person fit.
Aggregate planning, to be effective, requires inputs from
A) all customers. B) all departments. C) all suppliers. D) throughout the supply chain.