Total sales up 8 percent, but are the stores healthy?
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The prompt
An illustrative grocery chain had 100 stores and sales of EUR 500 million last year. This year it has 110 stores and sales of EUR 540 million. The 10 new stores sold EUR 45 million. What is total growth, and what is like-for-like growth?
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