In fiscal 2015, macy's reported cost of goods sold (before shrinkage) of $16.5 billion, ending inventory for 2015 of $5.5 billion, and ending inventory for the previous year (2014) of $5.4 billion. required: if the cost of inventory purchases was $16.9 billion, what was the cost of shrinkage during 2015?

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the correct answer is economics is a game without winners or losers.

unlike sports or games economic is a game without losers or winner rather it is a game where everyone wins. parties of business doing businesses exchange money with each other and hence exchange is done on the basis of goods. one party takes the goods and other sales it so there is winner on both sides. each party values more highly the good it gets than the good it gives up. both sides exchange only because both intend to increase their value. so there is no concept of lose or win.