The correct answer is option D) “Every purchase you make at a chain store is sale that a local small business misses out on.”
A zero-sum game in this example represents the following situation: if the amount of sales increases for a chain store, then the amount of sales will equally decrease in a small store.
Let’s take the example of a cake. The complete cake represents the total amount of sales in the market. If the chain store takes a big piece of “cake”, then the rest of it is divided into the rest of the small stores.
In the other options provided, the zero-sum game mathematical process does not apply.
