Britt Beemer
Britt Beemer
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Customers are being just as protective with their gift cards as they were with their own money when buying Christmas gifts. The idea of free money is all in the past. They want value or something very special.
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At this point in the buying season, parents have only spent $71.96 so far, so there is time for stores to get aggressive and drive more sales,
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One thing that shocked me was that the number of consumers planning to buy gift cards this Christmas is not as big as last year.
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It's hard to escape a week without some negative story about Wal-Mart. Let's look at the facts. Wal-Mart is clearly the number one retailer in America. Average consumers have to buy the products that Wal-Mart sells and they do this each and every week. The consumer isn't interested in the origin of the products purchased as long as merchandise meets their expectations.
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With nothing hot to buy in decorations this Christmas, many stores started selling two weeks earlier than ever before, beginning in mid-September. Many stores skipped Thanksgiving altogether and went from Halloween to Christmas.
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Wal-Mart deserves their high admiration level because they do what they say. They give America a place to buy at low prices in stores where employees seem happy to be there and willing to assist customers when questions are asked.
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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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They won't be there in 10 years. Most independent drugstores have given up and gone as the big drugstores come into town. ... It's kind of the end of an era.
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They will not make that mistake again this year, ... They could actually take a flat Christmas and move it up a half percent.
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These Thanksgiving shopping numbers will be the lowest in a decade,
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The consumer that's going to Wal-Mart is going to be very price-driven. The person who goes to one of these stores may be very high-tech-driven.
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I'm just amazed at how few people shopped, ... The lack of big discounts hurt retailers.
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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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I'm worried right now that we could have the first negative Christmas selling season in two decades,