Delos Smith
Delos Smith
certainly consumer effect gas mean negative numbers prices retail sales seen weekly
We haven't yet seen the negative effect of gas prices on consumer spending. It's certainly not here in these numbers. That doesn't mean it's not there. Certainly the weekly retail sales numbers have been sluggish.
concerns darkness parts
There are parts of the world that are in darkness and that concerns me.
build higher housing people starts
Housing starts would be much much higher if they could find the people to build the homes.
creating hard nervous people relaxed
This is a very nervous country. How much it's going to dampen the economy, I don't know, but it's hard to see people relaxed and creating a boom.
drained market share
The consumer, I think, is healing. There's still a lot of market share out there. I don't think we've drained anything away.
cnn longer mood retail suspense
As long as suspense lingers, you will have a longer CNN effect. That's not what you want -- mood is very important for the retail world.
corporate equity greed lack market people
Corporate scandals, equity market problems, a lack of transparency, a lot of greed -- it was not just the Dow falling, it was all of these things that make people very, very nervous.
biggest empty market people
It's the biggest market we have, because people don't live in empty houses.
cash hard looks nice perfect perspective register seeing shopping start until
It looks like a nice start but it's hard to tell, hard to have a perspective until we start seeing the cash register receipts. It's hard to tell, but it's perfect shopping weather.
business fingers leaks
I've been in the business 40 years...almost 40 years. I can tell you the leaks in 40 years and I won't even use all the fingers on one hand.
ends key whether
The whole key is whether or not (a war) ends quickly.
aware relief
They're getting nervous. They're getting angry. They have not really done anything about it because they want to see if there's going to be relief for it. But now they're aware of it.
bad christmas country forget material
It's a bad Christmas if you're a retailer. It's not a material Christmas. You can't forget this. I don't think the country can forget it.
fox hours msnbc people pounding war
A lot of people don't read newspapers, and we don't have 24 hours a day of CNN, MSNBC and Fox just pounding you with war news.