It takes 3,000 households having average annual income of $50,000 within a 3-mile radius to support a grocery store. There are actually 6,000 households within 3-miles of the Shop-Rite Grocery that have $50,000 per year average incomes. Today, Shop-Rite is the only grocery store in this area. Using the concept of Nash Equilibrium in location, explain what the likely outcome will be for this area, given those conditions

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It takes 3,000 households having average annual income of $50,000 within a 3-mile radius to support a grocery
store. There are actually 6,000 households within 3-miles of the Shop-Rite Grocery that have $50,000 per year
average incomes. Today, Shop-Rite is the only grocery store in this area. Using the concept of Nash Equilibrium in
location, explain what the likely outcome will be for this area, given those conditions

 

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