Question: Discount Electronics Supply, Inc. (a merchant) sends a written offer to sell Bob's Consumer Electronics, LLC (also a merchant) fifty specific laptops for $500 each,

Discount Electronics Supply, Inc. (a merchant) sends a written offer to sell Bob's Consumer Electronics, LLC (also a merchant) fifty specific laptops for $500 each, to be delivered to Bob's loading dock on January 5 at noon.Bob's president responds to the written offer with a signed purchase order that states "Accept your offer for the fifty laptops at $500 each. Must be delivered to our loading dock at 2:00 PM on January 5."Discount Electronics Supply, Inc. doesn't reply and fails to make delivery of the laptops.Bob's sues Discount Electronics Supply, Inc. for breach of contract and Discount Electronics Supply, Inc. claims that there is no contract because the Bob's purchase order contained additional terms and was not signed or otherwise accepted by Discount Electronics Supply, Inc.Is there a contract?Why or why not?

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