To Expand the Number of Its Retail Outlets in the Washington

question 219

Multiple Choice

To expand the number of its retail outlets in the Washington, D.C. area, Whole Foods bought out a small chain of organic food stores in northern Virginia. This type of integration is called

• A) vertical.
• B) retail.
• C) horizontal.
• D) backward.
• E) forward.

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