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Monica and her father own one of the three automobile tire stores in the city. No other city is nearby. They want do develop a strategy increase sales and market share in their city. What steps can they take?

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The solution explains the steps to increase sales and market share in an oligopolcy structure. The solution first describes an oligopoly and then provides some guidance to improving sales.

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An oligopoly is a market situation in which a small number of selling firms control the market supply of a particular good or service and are therefore able to control the market price. An oligopoly can be perfect-where all firms produce an identical good or service (cement)-or imperfect-where each firm's product has a different identity but is essentially similar to the others (cigarettes). Because each firm ...

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