If the price it pays for coffee beans continues to increase, the Coffee Shoppe will have to increase its prices. In that case, either the Coffee Shoppe will begin selling noncoffee products or its coffee sales will decrease. But selling noncoffee products will decrease the Coffee Shoppe's overall profitability. Moreover, the Coffee Shoppe can avoid a decrease in overall profitability only if its coffee sales do not decrease.
Which one of the following statements follows logically from the statements above?
If the Coffee Shoppe's overall profitability decreases, the price it pays for coffee beans will have continued to increase.
If the Coffee Shoppe's overall profitability decreases, either it will have begun selling noncoffee products or its coffee sales will have decreased.
The Coffee Shoppe's overall profitability will decrease if the price it pays for coffee beans continues to increase.
The price it pays for coffee beans cannot decrease without the Coffee Shoppe's overall profitability also decreasing.
Either the price it pays for coffee beans will continue to increase or the Coffee Shoppe's coffee sales will increase.