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Not sure, how (A) is the correct answer for Q1. Would love some insights.

Raffaello presents the insights to resolve the paradox mentioned in the last sentence of P1, right? Raffaello explains why the retailers are bleeding money even though their margins are thin.

How is (A) self-contradictory? Brand differentiation has been given as an explanation for the ''Cause-related marketing'' practices

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Over that period, paradoxically, cause-related marketing—whose costs, especially marketing and legal expenses, are greatest upfront—has spread most dramatically in the apparel and athletic equipment industries, in the same timeframe as keen global competition has slashed those industries’ per-unit profit margins to their first-ever single-digit percentages.

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A series of studies by Raffaello and colleagues between 2016 and 2019 appears to resolve the incongruity, by showing that retailers’ charitable commitments not only deepen brand loyalty in their consumers, but also diminish those consumers’ price sensitivity—to such an extent that the commitments become sources of overall profit for the retailers, generating enough extra sales revenue to outweigh the periodic monetary contributions and donations of wholesale-sized lots of product from the retailers to their charities of choice.
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