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Your other option is assuming there is industry wide financial reporting fraud across multiple businesses and multiple countries for many decades.
Stores have different costs due to selling:
1) different quality of goods
2) employing different quality/quantity of workers
3) different locations having different real estate/insurance/tax/labor costs
4) offering fewer or more services/products
Etc.
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Your other option is assuming there is industry wide financial reporting fraud across multiple businesses and multiple countries for many decades.
Stores have different costs due to selling:
1) different quality of goods
2) employing different quality/quantity of workers
3) different locations having different real estate/insurance/tax/labor costs
4) offering fewer or more services/products
Etc.