PepsiCo has a new flavor of soft drink that it wants to test to determine reactions of probable buyers. Which of the following test market characteristics would be least useful to PepsiCo when testing the new soft drink?
A) There are research and audit services available.
B) Retailers would be cooperative.
C) Testing efforts would not be easily jammed by competitors.
D) Tourism is a major industry in the area.
E) The city has stable year-round sales of soft drinks.

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Tourism being a major industry in the area would have little to no impact on the testing of a new soft drink flavor. The other characteristics mentioned, such as research and audit services, retailer cooperation, lack of competitor interference, and stable year-round sales of soft drinks, would all be useful in testing the new product.

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