26 The retailer’s coffers swelled as consumers continued shopping at its stores, famed for their competitive priceson a wide range of goods, despite high fuel prices and a credit squeeze.
(A) The retailer, famous for its various low-priced goods, still made a lot of profits from patrons even when oil prices soared and control of credit tightened.
(B) The retailer, known for its diverse low-priced merchandise, beat its competition in earnings by offering customers free coffee when oil prices and credit cards were increasing.
(C) An increasing number of customers purchased different low-priced commodities at the retailer’s stores when there was a hike in oil price and a cut in credit.
(D) The retailer’s coffee business boomed because consumers shopped at its stores which had a reputation for selling low-priced coffee and other goods in a time of high-priced oil and tightened credit.