U-Totem Was One of the Early Entrants into the Convenience

question 3

Multiple Choice

U-Totem was one of the early entrants into the convenience market boom of the 1970s and enjoyed huge success in the Arizona market.However,these stores did not sell gasoline.When later entrants combined gasoline sales with convenience markets,U-Totem was slow to respond and lost market share.This is an example of

• A) incumbent inertia.
• B) technological retardation.
• C) an immature enabling technology.
• D) delayed market dominance.

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