Taco Bell: Pricing for Value Offering quality food at a great price is nothing new to Taco Bell. Founded in 1962, Taco Bell pioneered value-based pricing with its three-tiered menu, offering food choices for 59, 79, and 99 cents. Taco Bell's director of marketing discusses how value plays a key role in the firm's pricing strategies. Of the four Ps—product, price, place and promotion—price is the most challenging to manage, partly because it is often the least understood. Historically, managers have treated price as an afterthought to their marketing strategies, matching competitors' prices or, worse yet, by adding up their costs and tacking on a desired profit to set the sales price. Prices were rarely changed except in response to radical shifts in market conditions. Even today, pricing decisions are often relegated to standard rules of thumb that fail to reflect our current understanding of the role of price in the marketing mix. Click the button to watch the video. Then, answer the questions that follow. Play Video One reason Taco Bell raised its prices was the result of an increase in .a. profits. b. sales to loyal customers. c. costs. d. competitors' prices. e. market share.

c. costs.

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The cost of production of a particular commodity is a factor that determines the price of the commodity. An increase in production cost will lead to an increase in the price of the commodity. If the cost of production decreases, the price of the commodity will also decrease. This is to ensure that the company makes sufficient profit from the production of the commodity.

since most of current immigration into the u.s., both legal and illegal, is coming from latin america. it would be very difficult to imagine or rationalize a country my fellow citizens are trying desperately to flee into, would pose a threat to my prosperity or freedom. since the u.s. has a long history of intervention, but no record of permanent occupation, i would not feel oppression is the main objective.  

the largest free trade nation, along with the largest gdp in the world wanting to expand it's economic policy on us, and including us, could only be positive. the u.s. government has no interest in, or way of simply forcing american culture on us. and has no track record of it. other nations that adopted american social culture, or "americanization" did so voluntarily, mainly through the choice of allowing american businesses and u.s. citizens to come into their nations, as free operatives.

answer: a parliamentary system is a system of democratic governance of a state where the executive derives its democratic legitimacy from its ability to command the confidence of the legislature, typically a parliament, and is also held accountable to that parliament. in a parliamentary system, the head of state is usually a person distinct from the head of government. this is in contrast to a presidential system, where the head of state often is also the head of government and, most importantly, the executive does not derive its democratic legitimacy from the legislature.

countries with parliamentary democracies may be constitutional monarchies, where a monarch is the head of state while the head of government is almost always a member of parliament (such as the united kingdom, denmark, sweden, and japan), or parliamentary republics, where a mostly ceremonial president is the head of state while the head of government is regularly from the legislature (such as ireland, germany, india, and italy). in a few parliamentary republics, such as botswana, south africa, and suriname, among some others, the head of government is also head of state, but is elected by and is answerable to parliament. in bicameral parliaments, the head of government is generally, though not always, a member of the lower house.

parliamentarianism is the dominant form of government in europe, with 32 of its 50 sovereign states being parliamentarian. it is also common in the caribbean, being the form of government of 10 of its 13 island states, and in oceania. elsewhere in the world, parliamentary countries are less common, but they are distributed through all continents, most often in former colonies of the british empire that subscribe to a particular brand of parliamentarianism known as the westminster system.

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