E-gadgets is a chain of electronics stores that specializes in devices and gadgets incorporating cutting-edge technologies. the company has more than 170 stores located in large cities throughout the southeast and midwest. e-gadgets has chosen the locations of its stores so that most customers living in upper middle class and wealthy neighborhoods can get to an e-gadgets store in less than 15 minutes. e-gadgets is providing its customers
a)scrambled merchandising. b)allocative utility. c)place utility. d)saturation marketing.

What is the most direct result of free trade supplying productive resources to areas where they're most needed? a. enhanced efficiency b. lower interest rates c. increasing specialization d. greater competition 2b2t

Amanufacturing firm is considering overhauling the existing compensation strategy. currently every front line employee who works on the assembly line earns the same hourly wage. ideally, management would like to institute a new pay system that involves pay-for-performance. which of the following recommendations is both consistent with scientific management's general emphases and generally good advice for management of this firma. the firm should adopt a differential pay system with one pay level for average performance, and a higher level for good performance. b. the firm should adopt a differential pay system, but the firm should modify it from its original design and provide many different levels of pay associated with different performance levels. c. the firm should understand worker psychology and to focus on pay as the key motivator. d. all of the abovee. none of the above

Consider a firm with a contract to sell an asset for $149,000 four years from now. the asset costs $85,000 to produce today. a. given a relevant discount rate of 14 percent per year, calculate the profit the firm will make on this asset. (a loss should be indicated by a minus sign. do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e. g., 32.16.) b. at what rate does the firm just break even?