The following is a recommendation from the business manager of Monarch Books."Since its opening in Collegeville twenty years ago, Monarch Books has developed a large customer base due to its reader-friendly atmosphere and wide selection of books on all su

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The following is a recommendation from the business manager of Monarch Books.

"Since its opening in Collegeville twenty years ago, Monarch Books has developed a large customer base due to its reader-friendly atmosphere and wide selection of books on all subjects. Last month, Book and Bean, a combination bookstore and coffee shop, announced its intention to open a Collegeville store. Monarch Books should open its own in-store café in the space currently devoted to children's books. Given recent national census data indicating a significant decline in the percentage of the population under age ten, sales of children's books are likely to decline. By replacing its children's books section with a café, Monarch Books can increase profits and ward off competition from Book and Bean."

Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.

Recommender is recommending to manager of Monarch Books (MB), which is at Collegeville (CV), to open a Cafe section by replacing a particular section of store. This recommendation is based on recent announcement made by Book and Beans (BB). But recommender have made this recommendation to manger is based on number of false assumptions and observations.

Firstly, MB is operating at CV from last twenty years, which is pretty huge for any business to settle up. But according to recommender, BB can break customer base of MB easily because of add-on services provided by them. For any business to...

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