All the parents were promised things, and they never gave them. |
Around here they like to mess with people. |
For the Wal-Mart audience, it's absolutely a factor. It is hurting a lot of people's back-to-school shopping. |
I told God he had to give me the strength of 10 people. And you know, he did. That's the only way I could have managed something as crazy as this. |
I told parents that if John L. Smith had been there to tell parents how to help their children get on the MSU football team, there would have been a packed house, |
I've been very impressed with the strides they have made, but I think that it's going to be a bumpy road for them in the next four or five quarters. |
If I live to be a couple hundred years old, the story will not change, |
If parents don't plant the crop, they won't reap the harvest, |
If they promote this correctly, it could be huge. |
It is really difficult for Wal-Mart to go into a new country and just build from the ground up. They're doing it in China. But if you look at anywhere else they have gone into, they have always partnered with a local company of some sort. |
It started out running, galloping on fours like a dog, but when it dove I could see the arms come up. It was sizable, almost like a bear, but not a bear, not the way its arms moved. |
It's a nice gesture and it will buy them positive publicity. If this gives them the ability to build stores in Maryland and other places that have not been very pleased with them, it will be money well spent. |
People were crying - they couldn't believe that they had come so far. And the very first thing I did was to bring everybody downstairs into the basement so we could have a family prayer meeting. |
The challenge they face is value. Upper-end consumers define value differently than a moderate-income shopper. |
The fact of the matter is that when you're doing what is essentially a turnaround and trying to get feet back under something, it doesn't always go that smoothly. |