When Coca-Cola focused on developing its soft drink business but missed seeing the market for coffee bars and fresh-fruit-juice bars that eventually impinged on its soft-drink business, it was suffering from because it defined competition in traditional category and industry terms.
A) factor elimination
B) marketing myopia
C) factor reduction
D) category points-of-parity
E) reliance on product description

B) Marketing myopia

Explanation: Some organizations ignore the fact that to succeed in business, the wants of the customers must be their central focus.

So when a marketer wants to sell his products and services without focusing on the needs and demands of the customers is called marketing myopia.

i think it is the third one.

even though you have attached neither the chart nor the generalizations, i have located them online. the right answer is d, since they are asking you about a generalization. you can only infer from the chart that between 2008 and 2009 the number of employed workers decreased significantly (from over 115 millions to 107 millions approximately), which signals some type of economic crisis.