Everything I've seen says sales were way down. This smells of economic trickery and not what actually happened.
You are right to trust your eyes. This is one of their latest tools for economic trickery. And you know that they've used it before, and will use everything in order to lie to the public.
Sales were down, but since prices are up its record profits.
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” I think this saying was popularized by mark twain
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