One reason for the success of the cities in the hanseatic league and the italian city-states were that both were accessible by water.
The indigenous people of Mexico face numerous problems, but lacking Spanish skills is not one of those problems. These people, descendants of the indigenous people of what is now Mexico, like the Maya and the Aztec people, have been facing big problems ever since the Europeans came to their land and conquered it.
They have been segregated, forced to marry Europeans, thus their blood lineages got mixed, so only little populations remained unaffected. Also, they are having problems with communication between one another, especially because they live in separate areas hundreds of km away. Large portion of them live in isolation, in the most remote parts of the country, mostly in the tropical jungle, where they rarely have contact with the other people in the country. When they do have contact, they face another problem, multiculturalism. The Mexicans want to incorporate them into the societies, and allowing them to preserve their culture and language, but the problem is that they will constantly be exposed to other culture, and that would gradually lead to decline and dying out of the indigenous cultures.
An objective that's common to both capitalism and socialism (and thus mixed economies) is production. Both systems rely on the production of goods and services (except that in capitalism one produces for profit and in socialism one produces for use--i.e. one produces according to human needs, not wants).
The correct answer is the following.
The methods of competition are:
A store that offers a coupon for the purchase of its sandwiches is to compete: Promotion.
A bakery that creates a new type of dessert is using to compete: Innovation.
A barber shop that hires a better barber and reduces wait times is using to compete: quality improvement.
Offering coupons are a good way to use promotion, one of the components of the Marketing Strategy, as well as Public Relations and advertising. If consumers get coupons, they probably are likely to use them and buy the product.
The bakery that creates a new type of dessert is innovations. It is going one step further than competence, creating a new option for consumers, offering something different.
The barber shop is improving its operations through quality improvement. Overseeing operations have allowed the barber shop to realize that there was a problem with wait times, so hiring a new worker reduces that time and improves the operation and client satisfaction.
