Marion owns a dress shop, where she personally makes all the dresses she sells.

Marion owns a dress shop, where she personally makes all the dresses she sells. Marion sees a beautiful dress at a designer shop and buys it. She examines the dress carefully, so she can design a dress pattern to duplicate it. She duplicates the dress exactly, and sews the dress in several sizes to sell in her store for a lower price. Then she returns the dress to the store where she bought it for a full refund. Has Marion acted ethically?

A. No, because she is asking a lower price for her dress
B. Yes, because she is competition is fair in a capitalist society
C. Yes, the store was not hurt because the designer store’s customers would not go to her store anyway.
D. No, Marion is undercutting the designer shop with merchandise that is deceptively similar.

 

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