Shoe Pica Inc. ,a retailer of shoes,advertises that it is selling a particular type of jogging shoes at a very low price of $50.These shoes are kept at the end of the store and before reaching those shoes,customers have to walk by all the other shoes that have many more features and better quality.Several times,this causes the consumers to buy other better brands even though they are costlier that the one advertised.This is a typical example for _____.

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This is an example of bait pricing, which is a deceptive pricing strategy where a product is advertised at a very low price to attract customers, but in reality, it is not available or has limited availability. The intention is to lure customers to the store in the hope that they will purchase other, more expensive products. In this case, the jogging shoes advertised at $50 are used as bait to get customers to come to the store and buy other, better quality shoes at a higher price.