题目选项分析

If shoplifting at ToySMart continues at the current rate, the shop's owner will be forced to close the store. Raising the prices of the goods sold at ToySMart by 10% will help make up the shortfall in the store's income; this change will therefore protect ToySMart from having to close.

Which of the following is an assumption made in drawing the conclusion above?

【选项】The rise in prices will not induce visitors who otherwise would not have shoplifted to shoplift items they can now not afford.