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"We hope you can represent A&P and travel to Kansas City to have a friendly discussion with Donnie. Now, the retail market in America is not fully developed, so everyone can coexist peacefully. There's no need to continue these losses together!"
A director representing the A&P board expressed their true thoughts.
John Hardford looked surprised and pained; they were currently engaged in a bitter struggle with Apollo Chain, and now these people were thinking of negotiating peace with their opponents?
"Ladies and gentlemen, do you not realize that if we go to Donnie Block for peace talks now, it's the same as bowing our heads to them? Have you thought about the excessive demands Donnie might put forward under such circumstances?"
