Consider any two factors that a service operation assigns the greatest weight when making a location decision

Using those two factors, identify one local service operation that likely used one of those factors as their top priority and a different service operations that likely used the other of your two factors as their dominant criterion. Briefly describe the business and justify your assignment of each factor as the overriding concern.

Answers will vary. The factors identified by the authors as being critical for service operations include: proximity to customers, transportation costs and proximity to markets, location of competitors, and site-specific factors.