Retail Quotes

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It`s like Christmas: it`s all advertising, and the first rule of selling somebody something is to make them seem inadequate. Make them feel like they need it. Like fabric softener. Nobody really needs fabric softener and yet, all of a sudden, you feel like a jackass if you don`t have fabric softener, so people buy it. And that`s how Christmas has become, because 50% of all retail sales happen in December. You are bombarded with this stuff - money will make you happy, and keeping up with the Joneses. Obviously that stuff doesn`t make you happy, otherwise there wouldn`t be all these unhappy rich people. They`d all be happy in their jacuzzis and OK, some of them are.

- Ben Affleck

My mom owned a retail store, so I had these hot satin pants. I was like Satan at my all-Christian school.

- Charisma Carpenter

Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student.

- Patricia Heaton

By the end of the decade, Home Depot Supply expects to operate more than 1,500 locations, covering all 50 states, and will be the largest diversified wholesale distribution business in the United States. Our planned acquisition of Hughes Supply is a great example of how we are rapidly replicating in the professional market the same type of transformation that we brought to the home improvement retail market.

- Paula Smith

We have consensus on a couple of major points. One is the value of early retail contests in Iowa and New Hampshire and secondly, there needs to be a more diverse set of early contests. We`re trying to give appropriate weight to both premises.

- David Price

Well, there`s no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market.

- Gray Davis

would be better served by continuing to hold an ownership position in a pure-play sporting goods retailer rather than a retail conglomerate.

- Jack Smith

I mean, our primary businesses in wholesale pipelines, utilities, retail, were all doing extremely well.

- Kenneth Lay

What we`ve seen over the past few months is a very gradual recovery in retail sales. We`re likely to see a continued recovery in coming months, but nothing dramatic.

- Michael Penn

Retail sales have shown tentative signs of a modest recovery from weak levels, but in our view a continuing threat remains the weakness of the labor market ... which may slow the pace of consumer spending.

- Michael Penn

We saw some short-covering but also saw some large institutional buying. We saw a little retail buying but still not a rush of retail buying. We need to see more conviction before that happens.

- Patrick Murphy

(Red Hat President Robert Young said the Intel/Netscape investment wasn`t needed to support the company`s retail effort but to gain credibility with corporate customers.) The key thing for growth of Linux in the commercial space is working with winners like Netscape, ... If we can prove ourselves with Netscape, other application vendors who haven`t ported their software to Linux yet will join in.

- Robert Young

We do consider The UPS Store the premier retail channel for our business. And to quote Mr. Eskew, we are `laser focused` on helping store owners grow their business.

- Steve Holmes

We can`t rule out double-digit retail sales growth in the final quarter.

- Daniel Chan

In retail, the closer to the street, the more quickly the cycles of renovation.

- Paul Muller

Now, it`s like, `OK, now who are we gonna get?` One of the major companies that sponsor its retail chain in the garage area can`t win a race, so they`re ready for the next-best thing and that may be a guy that`s got more experience.

- Greg Biffle

It`s like we got a big state right here and we got Louisiana, too. That`s a lot of people. That`s a lot of different retail stores and you can make a lot of money off of that alone.

- Slim Thug

To date, the increasing affordability of our key product categories and the strength of our retail team have enabled us to grow our business despite macro-economic factors such as rising gas prices,

- Brad Anderson

Pacific has quietly grown with key retail customer partners to become the leading salad and fresh-cut fruit and vegetable provider to supermarket delis in the western United States.

- Bruce Taylor

These sites are starting to gain some notice and I think it`s potentially the next wave of the future. They are combining the more traditional retail Web model with a kind of community-based model where they bring people together to make volume purchases.

- Steve Jones

People laugh about that old joke where country music songs are about getting your truck repossessed. Well, I did have my truck repossessed, ... I did leave a good job for a shot at stardom only to end up with a career in retail.

- Cowboy Troy

The measures undertaken earlier this year have enabled us to keep the business in good shape during a difficult six months in UK retail.

- John King

This means we may end up with a softer March but much stronger April. Easter is one of the biggest retail seasons. It`s when new merchandise comes out and families get together for dinner. The later in the year it falls, the bigger the boost to the economy, since the weather is more likely to be favorable.

- Scott Brown

Our view is that the pharmacy benefit is an extraordinarily good benefit. Many of these drugs cost more than $100 at retail for a month`s supply. Virtually all of our members will be paying between $10 and $15.

- David Olson

These stocks are mostly bought by retail investors. When these stocks approach high double digits, they become less attractive to retail investors.

- Jonathan Cohen

It`s very, very common practice to pick parking lots, like apartment complexes and retail facilities, to do transactions. I can`t say that`s exactly what happened. But it certainly is something we`d be looking at,

- Paul Robinson

We encourage anyone who thinks there may be an error in their bill to contact their retail electric provider and request that a representative look at their meter. A lot of them will slow down, but we`ve found that less than one percent are actually over-reading Š Also keep in mind that this time of year is a peak usage time.

- David Hooper

It is the convenience store that has the RF wireless access and it paints the entire retail footprint at the gas station including the pumps.

- Brian Davis

Those who rejected the bid from Philip Green have been vindicated. Despite very tough retail conditions, the management are delivering.

- David Cummings

When we listened to the third-quarter earnings (report), their credit card business was performing above expectations and they felt that that was going to mitigate the negative impact they were experiencing from their retail operation,

- Edward Jones

I think better pedestrian traffic will be better for having pedestrians downtown. And, the long range plan calls for that. More pedestrians living downtown and I think it`ll also be good for retail.

- Jim Hawkins

I would say he`s the Michael Jordan of retail. He`s done a brilliant job.

- Jennifer Black

I am confident that top-tier performance is attainable in the near term. The retail bank has improved its performance at a rate faster than expected. Our corporate and specialty finance business continues to grow rapidly and also is performing above plan?We are entering the 21st century on very strong ground.

- Robert Gillespie

We continue to see higher trading volumes from both hedge funds and retail investors, despite concerns that growth could slow.

- Robert Hansen

The company`s excellent financial performance, including 16 consecutive quarters of revenue and profit growth, and the successful expansion of its retail and wholesale businesses, has not been reflected in our recent stock price performance.

- Charles Koppelman

We are pleased to be the first retail pharmacy in the nation to receive VAWD accreditation from the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy. We view this accreditation as a reliable and practical means of preserving the safety and integrity of the pharmaceutical supply chain. We engaged in this process as a way to further our commitment toward safeguarding the health and safety of our patients.

- Matt Leonard

For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.

- Howard Nemerov

Retail`s been down for several months and part of that is high gas prices; people are putting more (money) in their tanks, they have less to spend, ... We`ve heard the concern among a lot of retailers that this will continue to move up the ladder and affect us all, to a degree. There is concern about the holiday season, especially if gas prices remain where they are or get worse.

- Tom Scott

I am very disappointed, ... More jobs mean more people, and that equates to more housing and more retail sales. Stagnation in the local economy means no prosperity. I and many others, particularly Colleen Towns, worked very hard and did an excellent job representing the City of Liberal.

- Jack Taylor

The project had its challenges. Each of the retail stores remained open and operating as faade construction took place. This required significant pre-planning and constant communication.

- John Thomas

(Bell got his feet wet in online marketing as director of retail marketing and e-business at Ford Motor Co.) My first job was to clean up the mess from the various Internet acquisitions made at Ford, ... The real gem was forddirect.com, which we were able to establish technically, and also gain the support of the dealer network via ownership and usage. In many ways, the things I learned at Ford about how they structured the Web influenced my later decisions at Daimler-Chrysler.

- Jeff Bell

I`m more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It`s not a retail experience. It`s an existential one.

- Thomas Lynch

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.

- Adm James D. Watkins

No one in my family had a retail or marketing background. They were professionals. They didn`t understand just what I was doing by going into retailing. After I started, though, it got into my blood. I knew this was what I wanted.

- Akeim Claborn

We also never undercut representatives` prices. A representative will always be able to sell the discounts in our core business, which are not offered at retail. So it`s never more advantageous to buy there.

- Akeim Claborn

You replace it by 23 percent tax, a frank, transparent tax embedded in the cost at retail, and everybody gets to takes their whole check home. And the average income earner gets a 50 percent increase in take-home pay.

- Alissa Czisny

The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don`t do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods.

- Alois Fabry

They bring retail sales tax back into the borders of the city of Tulsa. And, that`s what supports the police, supports the fire, supports public education and supports the arts, the more good corporate citizens we have remaining in the city, the more our arts will be supported.

- Anil Ambani

At retail, this will provide a more efficient model ... so they`ll have more presence and power in the stores.

- Ann Bernard

mWholesaler will enable our retail mutual fund sales team to be more efficient, both internally and externally, ... Our mobile field reps can easily view and update client report details at any time and from any location. Additionally, sales management can view the latest sales activities and make better decisions based on that information.

- Ann Hill