Go to any Dominion supermarket and walk to the cereal aisle. You will notice four brands - Kellogg's, Quaker, General Mills, and Post-seem to occupy most of the shelf space. These cereals are all priced about the same. There is a good deal of product differentiation as the result of licensing agreements that have created a line of Disney cereals and through the use of different health claims. Given this information, you should know the cereal industry is an example of:
A.
a pure monopoly.
B.
an oligopoly.
C.
monopolistic competition.
D.
a pure competition.
Answer: B