104 ordspråk av Britt Beemer
Britt Beemer
I think they've got to be aggressive and to make Martha more accessible initially, ... America has got to know that she's not the same defiant Martha she was before. That's the challenge. If she can be humble through all of this, I think America will forgive her.
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I won't be surprised if a day comes very soon when the customer is charged $5 for every return. On the one hand, tougher measures frustrate the consumer. But retailers also don't want to struggle with unnecessary discounts.
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I would say that the first quarter of next year probably has already been doomed by this episode,
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I'm just amazed at how few people shopped, ... The lack of big discounts hurt retailers.
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I'm sure that Chrysler has been debating this for years. It's probably easier for Daimler to make the decision than for Chrysler.
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I'm worried right now that we could have the first negative Christmas selling season in two decades,
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I've advised clients that when you get into these types of situations, the PR battles are so bad. You might as well get out of it and not fight it.
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I've never seen this many consumers not done with their Christmas shopping.
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If I were Firestone I would certainly slash my prices. I think the time window is rapidly running out on Firestone. I would have dropped the video in the very beginning, but in some cases they chose to bury their heads in the sand.
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It certainly is a niche. But there's no guarantee of success. You just have to have people talking about it from the day you open.
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It costs some retailers as much as 20 percent per item to re-tag it, get it back on the shelf or rack and try to sell it again.
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It costs some retailers as much as 20 percent per item to retag it, get it back on the shelf or rack and try to sell it again.
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It costs some retailers as much as 20 percent per item to retag it, get it back on the shelf or rack, and try to sell it again.
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It probably won't mean much lower prices. It's going to obviously give consumers greater convenience, and that's what consumers want with drugstores.
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It's a reflection of the bargain-hunter mentality of America since Sept. 11. Americans certainly changed the way they look at what they spend their money on.
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