The retailing manager of a supermarket chain wants to determinewhether product location has any effect on the sale of pet toys.Three different aisle locations are considered: front, middle, andrear. A random sample of 18 stores is selected with 6 storesrandomly assigned to each aisle location. The size of the displayarea and price of the product are constant for all stores. At theend of a 1-month trial period, the sales volumes (in thousands ofdollars) of the product in each store were as follows:
Aisle Location
Front Middle Rear
8.8 3.4 4.6
7.4 2.6 6.0
5.6 2.2 4.0
6.4 1.6 2.8
5.2 2.0 2.2
4.2 1.8 2.8
- At the 0.05 level of significance, is there evidence of asignificant difference in mean sales among the various aislelocations?
- What should the retailing manager conclude?
