Management Purchases of Automated Equipment

question 3

Multiple Choice

Management purchases of automated equipment

• A) is currently at a higher rate than that found in Japan.
• B) has been encouraged by the tremendous success of the U.S. Postal Service's automated experience with bar codes.
• C) can reduce the number and/or skills of employees in the supermarket industry.
• D) precipitated a strike at AT&T.
• E) all of these

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