Famous Quotes & Sayings

Retail is actually the fastest-growing segment of digital printing right now. Early adopters were more techno-savvy, spent a lot of time fiddling with images, printing some but not all of them. As that mainstream consumer has moved to a digital camera, they want to be able to get their high-quality prints as easily as they've been used to.

Retailing and consumer spending are a function of a four-letter word -- jobs. And there are no jobs being formed in the United States at the present time. We are in an unfortunate labor climate, one that might be called not at all propitious for retail spending.

Retailers know this stuff works and that consumers like it when it's done properly.

Retailers are getting better and better at managing shipments, but any screw-up, and you lose the customer forever. However, I heard a lot fewer consumer horror stories this year. I think we got a little lucky this year; there were no major weather storms that played with logistics.

Edward Fox

Restocking fees are more prevalent in consumer electronics because the merchandise tends to become obsolete very quickly.

James Howard Kunstler

Please, please, stop referring to yourselves as 'consumers.' OK? Consumers are different than citizens. Consumers do not have obligations, responsibilities and duties to their fellow human beings.

I think they have taken the correct position, which is to say that the consumer is better off relying upon the market.

I think they're not telling the consumer the whole story.

Ron Paul

I think they are a treat. There are enough consumers who are willing to treat themselves frequently or once in a while.

It is a way to help consumers find not only what they're looking for, but content they may not known they're looking for, other programming we offer as part of the service.

I think the risk is the downside, not the upside, ... I think the markets are fairly nervous about the prospects for growth. They're going to be dissecting the number. If we have slower than expected consumer spending and stronger than expected inventory growth, that's not going to bode well for the next quarter or so.

I think there's going to be a lot of work for consumer advocates and lawyers as the new e-signature law unfolds.

I think the real story last month was that in spite of higher interest rates, exploding energy costs and debt levels, the American consumer rolls on.

I think the reaction on the consumer side will be relatively mild.

Martin Jacques

Just as the Japanese pioneered a new form of manufacturing - lean production and quite new standards of reliability - so Tata, too, is embracing new forms of manufacture in order to revolutionise the price to meet the consumer needs of a poor, developing country.

Japan's overall consumer spending is pretty firm as a trend because wages are rising.

Japanese consumers are important to us. They are a key to our success.

I think consumers want to see a choice.

I think consumers are more cautious, and I think the retailers have kept inventories well under control.

I think consumers are looking for online solutions, not only with taxes, but for all their financial solutions.

I think consumers are demanding that we get less processed in general in everything that we do.

The 2005 holiday season was a gadget year for consumers of all ages, and consumers continued to show their love for free shipping.

Paul Taylor

The affordability issue from rising interest rates takes some consumers out of the market. These are big-ticket items for consumers. They are going to be sensitive to interest rates.

The American consumer has been particularly resilient over the last year plus, ... They're finding ways to spend.

David Rosenberg

That will just reinforce the slowdown in consumer spending.

That's what gets the word of mouth going, that's what gets consumers saying, 'I've got to have this game, and I got to have this system to play it.'

It gives consumers the convenience of the Internet, with the peace of mind of working with an ASTA travel professional.

It gets tough when you try to tailor-make a plan for every single person, but at the same time we are paying for things we never use. Right now, it is kind of a one-size-fits-all approach, and from a consumer standpoint, someone who purchases health insurance, that doesn't go a long way in curtailing health-care costs.

It had that 'wow' factor. I do hope consumers embrace it as well.

It has been a very strange development. Consumers are being threatened with non-renewal for filing legitimate claims.

It has been a long time since consumers have been fooled by prices which are just under the round number,

I think ultimately as consumers get older their tastes are more sophisticated. And that's a big part of the growing interest in the category.

I think that the consumer continuing to spend will continue to support those fundamentals.