A recent innovation by Amazon, the Vendor Flex program, seeks to lower overall transportation costs but also creates new forms of channel conflict with competitors. As a partner in the Vendor Flex program, P&G agreed to allow Amazon to build fulfillment centers within P&G's own warehouses, thus helping to eliminate some of the costs of transporting P&G's products to Amazon's fulfillment centers. Believing that the program was giving its competitor Amazon an unfair advantage, Target reacted vigorously, moving all P&G products from prominent end-cap positions in its stores to less prestigious and less visible locations. Target also stopped using P&G as its primary source of advice for planning merchandising strategies within each category. This is an example of ________ channel conflict.
A. coercive
B. conventional
C. independent
D. horizontal
E. vertical
Answer: D
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A) 2.22 years
B) 2.89 years
C) 1.00 year
D) 3.61 years
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Fill in the blanks with correct word.