Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given two sentences in the English language (Sentence 1 and Sentence 2). Your task is to identify the connecting word between the two sentences.

Sentence 1:In 2013 , a Lord & Taylor outlet store and the Jewelry Emporium and Mall opened in the former Nordstrom Rack and Off 5th , respectively . Sentence 2:However , these stores failed to increase foot traffic at the mall , and the vacancy rate continued to increase .
however