Primark, an Irish clothing retailer, uses an overall cost leadership strategy. This could fail if it

A. exceeds customer expectations.
B. maintains parity with competitors on low cost.
C. cannot maintain parity on differentiation dimensions requested by customers.
D. increases its sales prices while maintaining competitor parity.


Answer: C

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