$\text{SOUP MINI CASE:}$ White Mountain Soups Sells Ready-To-Eat Soups Packaged and Sold in and Sold

question 50

Multiple Choice

$\text{SOUP MINI CASE:}$ White Mountain Soups sells ready-to-eat soups packaged and sold in microwave-ready, single-serving plastic containers that can be used as bowls and then recycled. White Mountain makes a variety of soups, including New England clam chowder, vegetarian minestrone, and beef and tomato soups. Its advertising emphasizes the use of wholesome ingredients produced by independent farmers, and suggests that White Mountain soup can be a quick and easy lunch, or a wholesome mid-afternoon snack alternative to a bag of potato chips or a candy bar.
-In the SOUP MINI CASE, White Mountain offers a variety of types of soup in order to appeal to which of the following American core values?

• A) practicality
• B) material comfort
• C) individualism
• D) freedom
• E) external conformity

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