Costco offers a variety of frozen shrimp imported from Southeast Asia. There are very high shipping costs to deliver the shrimp to the retail stores, but they are less expensive than it would be to stock and maintain a supply of fresh local shrimp in each store. This saves customers money and Costco offers the product because it has calculated the ______ of choosing to sell the Asian shrimp.

a. consumer costs
b. shipping costs
c. total costs
d. labor costs