60 ordspråk av George Whalin
George Whalin
On the other hand, every major retailer subscribes to weather consulting firms that give seasonal forecasts over a period of a year in advance. They can better plan inventory accordingly.
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One thing everyone looks at when you get down to that part of the county is how much business you will get from Mexico. That is a very important part of the equation.
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Retailers are putting a great spin on this, saying that the customer benefits in the end. However, the self-checkout is not driven by customer service but by the retailer's objective to reduce costs.
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Retailers have to be aggressive in the coming weeks. Those with attractive discounts will do well.
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Security and privacy concerns, especially with RFID chip technology, are enormous,
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Some companies will certainly take advantage of any reason to raise prices. However, when your business is dependent on fleet of vehicles, gas prices may become a legitimate reason for raising prices.
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Technological innovation always precedes demand. It's not necessarily what the market wants or is willing to adapt to,
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That's pretty lofty, and maybe a little unrealistic.
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The department store business has gone through enormous changes in the last 10 years and we aren't through yet. It's a retail format that doesn't have a great future in it. Consumers have decided traditional department stores aren't their favorite places to shop.
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The no. 1 domestic growth driver will be grocery. Wal-Mart has a lot of room to grow there. It's already the No. 1 grocer in Texas.
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The retail business in general is strong, and Federated is doing well, considering it has stores in major cities such as New York and San Francisco, where the affluent shopper is driving a lot of sales.
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The shopping buddy is an interesting concept but it's essentially an experiment. The future of traditional supermarkets isn't that good right now and companies operating in the channel have to find ways to capture the consumer's attention.
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The upper end of the economy has done very well and the stock market is at a 3-1/2 year high. This bodes well for the high-end merchants, ... Discounters would have had a hard time because their customers were impacted by higher gas prices and uncertainty about jobs.
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The upper end of the economy has done very well and the stock market is at a 3-1/2 year high. This bodes well for the high-end merchants. Discounters would have had a hard time because their customers were impacted by higher gas prices and uncertainty about jobs.
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The whole consumer electronics industry is seeing a flattening of their business this summer.
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