A Grocery Chain Is Deciding on Where to Locate Its

question 13

Essay

A grocery chain is deciding on where to locate its new distribution centre. The new DC will serve four grocery stores, each with a demand of 10,000 units. If the coordinates of the stores are (112,108), (110,50), (40, 85), and (10, 25) where should the DC be located? Suppose now that each store instead had demand of 20,000 units. Where should the DC go in this case?

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Definitions:

Fair Value

Fair value is the estimated market price of an asset or liability, reflecting the price at which it could be exchanged between willing parties in an arm's length transaction.

Common Stock

A form of corporate equity ownership, a type of security representing ownership in a corporation.

Acquisition Method

A collection of accounting methods utilized to combine the financial reports of a parent company with those of its subsidiary companies.

Consolidated Equipment

The aggregate of equipment assets combined from parent and subsidiary entities for the purpose of financial reporting.