The Cost of the Manager of a Retail Distribution Channel

question 64

Multiple Choice

The cost of the manager of a retail distribution channel would MOST likely be classified as a

• A)customer-sustaining cost.
• B)distribution-channel cost.
• C)customer batch-level cost.
• D)corporate-sustaining cost.
• E)customer output unit-level cost.

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Definitions:

Repression

A defense mechanism where unpleasant thoughts, memories, or desires are kept out of conscious awareness.

Oedipus Complex

A psychoanalytic theory introduced by Sigmund Freud, which suggests that a child has unconscious sexual desires for their opposite-sex parent and hostility toward the same-sex parent.

Conscience

An inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior.

Defense Mechanisms

Psychological strategies brought into play by individuals to cope with reality and maintain self-image.