单项选择题
In recent years the basic market principles of competition and choice have expanded into new aspects of American life. Consumers now face a bewildering array of options for air travel, phone service, medical car, even postal service. Car buyers can shop on the Internet for the best price at any dealership in their area. In some parts of the country, home-owners can purchase electricity from a menu of companies. All these choices translate into unprecedented consumer power.
One of the persistent myths of capitalist culture is that business people love competition. They don’t. They spend their waking hours plotting ways to avoid it, and keep prices high. These days they use information technologies that give them intricate data on individual shoppers, and then present multiple prices to get each consumer to cough up the maximum he is willing to pay. The airlines have mastered this game, offering many levels of fare. Software companies appeal to the bargain shopper with a low price "standard" version and to the status conscious with a high priced "deluxe" alternative. If you are not in-clined to shop around or have a taste for extravagance, prepare to be fleeced.
A. They attract the bargain shopper with low-priced "standard" version.
B. They attract the status conscious with a high priced "standard" version.
C. In order to attract everyone, they have to keep price low.
D. Both A＆B.