Lobelia's Nursery and Garden Resource Center has long provided high-quality, typical types of seasonal bedding plants to customers in the Mobile, Alabama, metropolitan area. It has traditionally competed with the other plant nurseries within a 50-mile radius of Mobile. Recently, Lobelia has opened a branch in Fairfax, Virginia. Lobelia's research shows that most Fairfax nurseries have only one location. Lobelia can expect the local Fairfax nurseries to
Respond aggressively because of high market dependence

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Explanation:

In marketing, market dependence refers to how much a company depends on a specific market in order to operate and generate profits.

In this case, Lobelia's nursery depends on two markets, Mobile and Fairfax, so its market dependence is greater for its mobile facilities than its new Fairfax branch. But the other local nurseries in Fairfax, do not have other branches open, so they depend exclusively on the Fairfax market.

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