Answer:
The most likely factor that this department store company would have considered in discontinuing its credit card operations is the issue of bad debt.
Bad debt may likely have prevented them from making the required profit to cater for the needs of the company such as payment of salaries and purchase of goods which if not treated may lead to the collapse of the company.
An unexpected result is examined a lot more closely, since it must disagree with some currently accepted theory to be accepted as unexpected. If something is expected, we generally don't question it, although this is sometimes a tragic mistake and may cost a lot more for a person.
<span>quaker marketing message is designed to help the consumer to :
- Recognize a problem (which is that people often do not have enough time to make their own breakfast before go to work)
and
- </span><span>acknowledge breakfast as important and make it a priority in their busy day (and make customers aware that they need to consume something nutritious to be able to function properly at their job)</span>
C, tv commercials are ussualy the most expensive.
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-procklown <3