Zoe Is a Manager at a Small, Independent Grocery Store

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Multiple Choice

Zoe is a manager at a small, independent grocery store. Part of her job is to analyze sales data and information on consumers to determine how much of different competing products she should order for her store and how much shelf space to give to each of the competing brands. Zoe is working on

• A) category management.
• B) identifying target customers.
• C) expanding product mix width.
• D) improving atmospherics.
• E) updating retail positioning.

Understand the role of marginal revenue in decision-making for firms in perfect competition.

Understand the relationship between price, average total cost, and profit maximization in a perfectly competitive market.

Identify the conditions under which a perfectly competitive firm should increase or decrease production to maximize profits.

Recognize the significance of the equality between price and marginal cost in profit maximization.

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