| | | | | * Question 4 2 out of 2 points | | | Using the data below, determine the amount of consumer surplus, if any, in the market. The market clearing price for matinee tickets is $3 | Matinee TicketsWilling to Pay(WTP) | Tony | $1 | George | $2 | Deshon | $3 | Mario | $4 | Antonio | $5 | Brittney | $6 | | | | | | Selected Answer: | $6 | | | | | * Question 5 2 out of 2 points | | | Examine the graph below. The government has placed a $200 tariff on product z. The new equilibrium price is $600. What has happened to consumer surplus?
Study the demand elasticity for its products and discuss the availability of close substitutes for its products. How does that affect pricing decisions? Analyze the company’s profitability. Identify the economy or industry influences on its costs, operations, and profitability. Describe the competitive environment in which the firm operates, the distribution of market power, and the strategic behavior of the firm and its competitors.
Remove the DSD networks and concentrate only on the finished goods networks. 4. Keep distributing through both networks but revamp the product and marketing efforts of each network. Alternative Evaluation • The current marketing and position strategies showed some struggles with flavors and sizes of the product compared to customer preferences, along with slow growth in case sales. • By removing the finished goods network the company would save $137 million in cost of goods sold because the bottling companies take on most of these costs.
My reasoning for this was its taking away business from local grocery stores, taking away work, and so on. And this can be true, Wal-mart can run other stores out of business due to the low prices. But when I think about it that store could be run out of business by any other store if they get into a price war, people most of the time will choose the cheaper place to shop at. So then when you look at it at the price aspect, Wal-mart can be seen as a good thing for America. Wal-mart claims to have low prices always, and in the economy that's what Americans need, we need cheap affordable products.
("Store Wars," n.d., Big store, business practices section, para. 1).The low prices may be great for the economy, but that's about all walmart is doing for America. For people who work at Walmart, in order to make ends meet, they usually have to work at two different jobs. Their significant other usually has to work, too. Not enough money and too much stress lowers the quality of life that people have, and their standards of living also drop, as they are forced to get by with cheap, low-quality items (Nickels, McHugh & McHugh, 2010).
Fast food industries corporate greed took advantage of Americas need for cheap and readily available food. The fast food industry uses shrewd marketing tactics and governmental influences to promote products to the American public, having little or no concern for the people that are put at a disadvantage for the sake of the company making money. Schlosser states that in 1972 Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonald’s, gave the Nixon campaign a $250,000.00 donation. That year Congress and the White House were going to pass new legislation known as the “McDonald’s Bill”. The bill allowed employers to pay young teenagers twenty percent less than minimum wage (37).
Production orientation is a business orientation who believes in reduction costs through mass production which will reduce costs and maximise profits. Sales orientation is that orientation of company's who's thinking to the customer's needs and involving strategy: market and marketing, research, product development and promotion strategy. Market orientation mean market research to find out what customer's think about product and which is the importance of that product for customers. Societal Market is that balance to determine the needs, wants and interest of a target market to deliver the satisfaction and competitors where the society's well-being Sainsbury’s
I don’t understand it fully, but I should probably look into it. My suburb is Rose Bay North, and to be honest, there isn’t much going on locally here, but the Carbon Tax is a huge issue for many Australians. Prices of houses in my area are around $2-3,000,000 for a house, and approximately $300-600,000 for an apartment unit. Groceries and neccesities are about $200 for about a week and a half, movie tickets are about $15-20. Food and snacks are normally sround $5-10, for example a Subway costs about $10.20 for a footlong sub.
One of the main ways monopolies abuse market power is by using their market share to price higher than what they would in a competitive industry. To me, this is the part where the case seems to break down. Microsoft had over 90% of the market share in the Intel-compatible PC market. With that type of pull, Microsoft’s economist estimated that Microsoft OS should’ve been selling for a monopoly price of $1,800. At the time though, Windows was selling their OS to OEM’s for quantity discounts that ended up at $40-60 dollars on average per OS sold.
Incentives: The Roots and Core of Economics Economics is a social science that analyzes how society produces, distributes, and consumes its resources such as goods and services. The tools of economics can be easily applied to subjects of everyday life. According to Steven D. Levitt in his Freakonomics, economics at its root is essentially the study of incentives: something that induces people to act. Levitt illustrates that economic, and even social and moral decisions, are made by comparing the costs and benefits of incentives. Incentives are offered to people in order to induce them to make certain choices or behave in a certain way.