"But you moved it to another warehouse, sometimes 200 feet across, and the result of that was it stays in your warehouse but it also lengthens the queue."
"The amount of the incentives dramatically increased. Is that correct?"
"These deals were so important that they were taken to Metro's board of directors for approval."
"You could have given them a discount and left it in the warehouse."
"If you can say there is no correlation between premium and the length of the queue, then you are in a very different mathematical world than most of the mathematicians that look at this."
"So it was a joint decision to go ahead."
"Cancellations drive the queue, and we all ought to remember that."
"If they lived up to the contract, is my question."
"You insisted in that contract that they would pay a penalty if they did not put their metal into another Metro warehouse."
"If they chose to live up to a contract, do not most people you deal with honorably live up to their contract?"
"The merry-go-round deals required Metro to organize and pay for thousands of truck shipments between its own warehouses."