Question

You are the manager of Local Electronics Shop (LES), a small brick-and-mortar retail camera and electronics store. One of your employees proposed a new online strategy whereby LES lists its products at Pricesearch – a price comparison Web site that allows consumers to view the prices of dozens of retailers selling the same items. Would you expect his strategy to enable LES to achieve sustainable economic profits?

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer is No, because due to intense producer-producer rivalry.

Explanation:

In economics, competition means rivalry of competition between companies that participate in a market that apply better strategies so that they can minimize their costs, maximize their profits and thus remain active and innovative vis-à-vis other companies.

With this, it seeks that the economic agents strive to improve the use of resources to produce goods and services, and to improve and innovate in the quality and variety of these, with the purpose that results in improvements in competitiveness and more benefit for the consumer , all this to achieve greater economic growth and social welfare.