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Whole Foods depends on its customers’ willingness to pay top dollar for high-end foods. Its shareholders don’t seem to mind paying premium prices either. After reporting a decline in fourth-quarter profits, mostly on charges related to its acquisition of rival Wild Oats, and a $425m convertible preferred infusion from private equity firm Leonard Green & Partners, investors pushed its stock up some 15%. Their optimism should be short lived. Like Kermit the Frog’s lament, Whole Foods’ investors ma...