Alan Rifkin
Alan Rifkin
Alan Rifkin is a former contributing editor of Details magazine. He has also written for the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Premiere, L.A. Weekly, Buzz and The Quarterly. His first book, Signal Hill, was a finalist for the 2004 Southern California Booksellers Award in Fiction. He was also a finalist for the 2003 PEN Center USA Award in Journalism . He lives with three children in Long Beach, California...
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clearly a positive step in the right direction, and it showed that Circuit City store renovation and relocation strategy is moving in the right direction.
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We believe that, with current sales trends still weak, the company's holiday selling season could very well be hampered,
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AutoZone's retail market for auto parts is already quite mature. So it's really difficult to improve business in that segment.
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At expense of margins, we believe Pier 1 continues to rely on heavy promotions to drive sales. March results seem to have improved, but we await greater signs of improvement.
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This change basically affects the timing of when the rebates are accounted for, ... The way Best Buy will do it now is typically a more conservative approach.
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The commercial market for auto parts is still growing. This segment is still really in the early stages of its life cycle.