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Through the years,drugstores have added more unrelated products to their product mix,such as lawn care supplies,food items,housewares,and small appliances.This illustrates which of the following retail strategy issues?


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Entry Barriers

Obstacles that prevent or hinder new competitors from easily entering an industry or market.

Inverted-U Theory

A hypothesis suggesting that a variable can produce effects that increase to a point after which further increases in the variable lead to a decline in the effect.

Industry Concentration Ratios

Statistical measures that express the extent to which a small number of firms dominate the total output, sales, or capacity in an industry.

R&D

Research and Development; a dedicated business or policy activity aimed at investing in new knowledge, product development, and innovation improvement.

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