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Here is what you quoted me saying and accused me of lying about:

"Why shouldn't OATS sell too many conventional products? It alienates the core natural foods customers who believe in the mission of natural/organic foods. OATS is now a supermarket retailer who just happens to sell natural and organic foods. They have lost their sense of mission for the business and in losing their mission they have also been losing their core customers dedicated to that mission. Whole Foods, in contrast, is mission driven to its core and that dedication to mission gives them an authenticity and a commitment from their core customers that drives their sales ever upward.
OATS says the decision to sell more conventional products is due to the results of a survey. 2 points here:

1. Mission committed companies fulfill their mission regardless of what surveys say. OATS is proving to their rapidly dwindling core customers that their mission is only skin deep and that they have no real commitment to it.
2. A couple of years ago OATS said that a "survey" of their customers convinced them to eliminate many redundant products. It didn't work. Now a new "survey" is telling them to add additional products.

OATS has lost their way and no longer has a sense of mission or even a well thought out theory of the business. They lack a viable business model that they can replicate. They are floundering around hoping to find a viable strategy that may stop their erosion. Problem is is that they lack the time and the capital now. Whole Foods says they will open 25 stores in OATS territories in the next 2 years. The average Whole Foods store in development is now about 50,000 sq. ft.--twice as large as the OATS stores that they will be competing with. The writing is on the wall. The end game is now underway for OATS. It will just take a couple of years to play completely out."

I stand by all of the above statements. I told no lies. I still believe that OATS doesn't have a viable business model and that Whole Foods is systematically destroying their viability as a business--market by market, city by city. The rise of their stock price merely reflects speculative fever on the Burkle buyout--not successful growth or earnings.

You can attack me and call me as many names as you wish to. What you are incapable of doing, however, is refuting my arguments.