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Imagine you are managing a large modern retail store and one day all your products begin ringing up at the incorrect price due to computer errors. You learn it will take days to fix the issue. How will the threat of such an error influence your decision-making process? What safeguards can you implement to deal with such issues?

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As the manager of the large retail store, I will understand that continually ringing up the wrong price may turn customers away and will want to consider all the alternatives available. Knowing that the problem will take days to correct, I will realize that a temporary solution ...

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