The following is a recommendation from the Board of Directors of Monarch Books.
"We recommend that Monarch Books open a café in its store. Monarch, having been in business at the same location for more than twenty years, has a large customer base because it is known for its wide selection of books on all subjects. Clearly, opening the café would attract more customers. Space could be made for the café by iscontinuing the children’s book section, which will probably become less popular given that the most recent national census indicated a significant decline in the percentage of the population under age ten. Opening a cafe will allow Monarch to attract more customers and better compete with Regal Books, which recently opened its own cafe."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
In order to attract more customers and boost its competitiveness , Monarch Book(MB)'s board of directors recommend that a cafe be open in its own store, and children's book section be canceled to make space for it, considering the its shrinking market, based on the recent national census. Although logical at the first glance, the decision is actually problematic after close examination. It could generate undesirable and maybe irreparable consequence to make this decision without considering several questions.
To start with, the fact itself that the recent national census indicates a shrinki...
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Sentence: Since it is also possible that in the specific region where MB locates, children's population remain the same or even increase.
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Sentence: If so, canceling the children's section would be a poor mistake as it would decrease MB's diversity of book subjects and consequently mar the present customer base.
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Sentence: Even if the population of children around MB does have decreased, still it is too soon to delete the children's book section since a decline in population of children itself cannot determine whether the sales trend of the children's book falls correspondently.
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