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Argument65
The following appeared in a memo from the president of a chain of cheese stores located throughout the United States.

"For many years all the stores in our chain have stocked a wide variety of both domestic and imported cheeses. Last year, however, the five best-selling cheeses at our newest store were all domestic cheddar cheeses from Wisconsin. Furthermore, a recent survey by Cheeses of the World magazine indicates an increasing preference for domestic cheeses among its subscribers. Since our company can reduce expenses by limiting inventory, the best way to improve profits in all of our stores is to discontinue stocking many of our varieties of imported cheese and concentrate primarily on domestic cheeses."

  This paragraph in a memo includes some statements for a decline of imported cheese stocking while focus on domestic cheeses in order to improve profits, by an investigation seems in a fairly depth. Yet with the examples and reasons the author presents, it lacks a strong persuasion and substantial interpretation about the issue if there really needs a transformation and whether the change could bring an anticipated result.
  One doubt relates to the newest store’s feedback of best-selling cheese, since this store is a new face to public, and without a deep market it lacks a familiarity and trust from consumers, its data could not be relied with. There is another possible case that this store locates at Wisconsin or somewhere with a close relation with this city, whose citizens are inclined to taste a food produced by them, then it is no wonder why the most prevalent cheeses come from Wisconsin. If the president wants to receive sale information, for the sake of justice, he should extract several stores all by random to make a statistical comparison.
  There is also a question about the credibility of the recent survey which indicates a trend of the prevalence about cheeses; if this magazine is not an authority in this area it may probably send false information. Granted that the conclusion is true, in economic consideration we can’t exclude a hypothesis that a majority of cheese sellers receives this result, and take similar action to increase the sale of domestic cheeses, at last it only turn out to be a clash and generally lost.
  What’s more, the favorite of crowd is hard to determine, under the mass influence of advertisement or some negative news about producer, it most likely converts to another situation, and the less various it is, the more risks it brings, only relies on a product may leads to a huge loss.
In sum, make such decision with the article the author presents is too thoughtless. The president has to collect more powerful information before a crucial decision, and whether the change worth while to be taken in consider of an increase risk, an equality must be found for it.