A grocery store is interested in determining whether its customers are satisfied with the quality of service provided.To collect the necessary data,interviewers have been hired to stand near the store's exits and to survey customers who have the time and interest to be surveyed.This type of sampling is called:
A)systematic random sampling.
B)ratio sampling.
C)convenience sampling.
D)stratified sampling.

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This is because the interviewers are only surveying customers who are exiting the store and have the time and interest to be surveyed. This means that the sample is selected based on convenience rather than being systematically or randomly selected, or selected based on a specific ratio or strata. Therefore, this is an example of convenience sampling.

A Grocery Store Is Interested in Determining Whether Its Customers