Walmart, Costco, and Southwest Airlines Serve Customers Who Want Reliable

question 152

Multiple Choice

Walmart, Costco, and Southwest Airlines serve customers who want reliable, good-quality products or services that are also reasonable and easily available. These companies are all known for pursuing a value discipline known as ________.

• A) operational excellence
• B) customer intimacy
• C) product differentiation
• D) product leadership
• E) focus

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Definitions:

BCD Value

Binary-Coded Decimal representation, a method of storing numbers where each digit is represented by its own binary sequence, commonly used in digital systems.

Thumbwheel Switch

A mechanical input device used to input numerical data, often found in industrial control systems, allowing the user to rotate a wheel to select numbers.

Setting

The configuration or adjustment of parameters or conditions within a system or device to achieve desired operation or output.

Masked Move Instruction

A programming command used to selectively transfer bits from one word to another using a mask.