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Marketing of hardware stores

Some huge hardware stores such as Canadian Tire boast of carrying as several as 20,000 different products in each store.  What motivated the producers of those specifies to make them and offer them for sale? How did producers decide on the best combinations of resources to employ? Who made these resources obtainable, and why? Who decides whether these specific hardware products should continue to be generated and offered for sale?

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The quest for profit led firms to generate these goods. Producers looked for and found the least-cost combination of resources in generating their output. Resource suppliers, seeking income, made these resources obtainable. Consumers, by their dollar votes, finally decide on what will continue to be generated.

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