Question

J. Pitner Clothing is a medium-size specialty men's and women's clothing store in a market with many other specialty stores, department stores, and discounters. It has established a reputation for offering high-quality, fashionable merchandise with quality service. J. Pitner's competitive environment would best be characterized as:
monopolistic competition. T/F

Answer 1

Answer: True - Monopolistic competition

Explanation:

The monopolistic competition is one of the type of imperfect competition in which the various types of industries selling the products and the services that is basically differentiated from others.

In the monopolistic competitors, the different types of decision taken by an organizations are not directly affecting the other competitors in the market.

 According to the question, the J. Pitner's is basically refers to the monopolistic competition in the given competitive environment as it helps in establishing the reputation by offering the various types of high quality services.        

 Therefore, Monopolistic competition is the correct answer.