Critical Reasoning (CR) | When a community opens a large shopping mall, it often expects

When a community opens a large shopping mall, it often expects a boost to the local economy, and in fact a large amount of economic activity goes on in these malls. Yet the increase in the local economy is typically much smaller than the total amount of economic activity that goes on in the mall.

Which one of the following, if true, most helps to explain the discrepancy described above?

(A) When large shopping malls are new they attract a lot of shoppers but once the novelty has worn off they
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