Providers of Convenience Activities Find It Profit-Maximizing to Disperse Over

Providers of convenience activities find it profit-maximizing to disperse over the region of potential customers to the point where each establishment is equidistant from another and is separated by the minimum distance that allows sufficient customers to support each establishment. The resulting pattern of establishment locations is referred to as:

A) central place pattern
B) clustering
C) concentric circle
D) multi-nuclei