GMAT Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: For each of the past two years, major department stores have

still not totally convinced of the explanations people on this thread have given.

i actually saw this question in a MPREP CAT and "e" for me was: "In the last two years, Z.A.C., in addition to maintaining its prior business ventures, expanded into two new markets, neither of which has been particularly profitable thus far." <-- this is the answer i chose.
- this A/C addresses the discrepancy: ZAC experienced a slight decline in sales b/c its going into new markets that aren't
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