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On average, middle-aged consumers devote 39% of their retail expenditure to departmentstore products and services, while for younger consumers the average is only 25%.Since the number of middle-aged people will increase dramatically within the nextdecade, department stores can expect retail sales to increase significantlyduring that period.Furthermore, to take advantage of the trend, these stores should begin to replacesome of those products intended to attract the younger consumer with products intendedto attract the middle-aged consumer.
Sample Essay 1: The argument that department retailsales will increase in the next 10 years and thusdepartment stores should begin to replace products to attract middle-aged consumersis not entirely logically convincing, since it omits certain crucial assumptions First of all, the argument ignores theabsolute amount of retail expenditure of middle-agedand younger consumers devoted to department store products and services. Althoughyounger consumers spend a smaller percentage of their retail expenditure to departmentstore products than do the middle-aged consumers, they might actually spendmore in terms of the absolute amount. Even if middle-aged consumers arespending more than younger ones in departmentstores, the argument ignores the possibility that the trend may change within the nextdecade. Younger consumers might prefer to shop in department stores than in othertypes of stores, and middle-aged consumers might turn to other types of stores,too. This willlead to a higher expenditure of younger consumers in department stores than that ofmiddle-aged consumers. Besides, the argument never addressesthe population difference between middle- agedconsumers and younger ones. Suppose there are more younger consumers than the middle-agedones now, the total population base of younger consumers will be bigger than thatof the middle-aged ones if both of them grow at the same rate in the next decade.Thus there will be a bigger younger consumer base. Based on the reasons I listed above, theargument is not completely sound. The evidencein support of the conclusion does little to prove the conclusion since it does notaddress the assumptions I have already raised. Ultimately, the argument mighthave been moreconvincing by making it clear that the absolute population of middle-aged consumersare higher than that of the younger consumers and the number will continue to growin the next decade, and that the middle-aged consumers will continue to spend moremoney in department stores than younger consumers do in the next decade.
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