Answer:
E)
Explanation:
It was prepared for this because Starbucks tracked, as part of its ongoing environmental scanning activities, the percentage of households with single-cup brewers. The data that they managed to gather through this study allowed them to quickly determine that there was a large percentage of households with single-cup brewers and therefore the customer base was there. Having a large customer base would drastically increase their chances of obtaining massive profits by simply providing the necessary product to those households, which they plan to do with this partnership.