Britt Beemer
Britt Beemer
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To a great extent, the brand has become a non-brand. It has not been nurtured or built upon for the last few years. They won't necessarily save money, but they'll consolidate their advertising dollars to a limited number of brands and do it better.
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The success of GM's employee discount sale is a great example that consumers still are in a mood to buy. However, I think Christmas spending could be a little narrower than last year.
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It probably won't mean much lower prices. It's going to obviously give consumers greater convenience, and that's what consumers want with drugstores.
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Consumers love January because January has always been this great clearance month. If they don't see (sales), as they've proved this Christmas, they'll outwait the retailer.
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The really good ones have developed some sort of product niche, whether they are the place to go to get the latest and greatest cook or travel books. They've developed a niche that makes them really unique.
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The closer you are to them, the greater the impact they'll be. If you can get almost one out of four people to shop at an outlet mall, that's a lot of people. It might not impact East Cooper. It might not impact Summerville. But somebody's going to feel them because that's quite a bit of business.
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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,