Delos Smith
Delos Smith
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You want the consumer buoyant. Most consumers are not current-events oriented. When you get everybody involved in current events, when they usually are not, then people are not going to go out and buy things just for pleasure of it.
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The current average price of $1.90 a gallon is still about 40 cents higher than the level a year ago. So the effect of higher prices will be felt for some time.
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I see robins and the grass coming up and all kinds of nice signs. But it has to be proven.
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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.
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The whole key is whether or not (a war) ends quickly.
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Probably Asia's diminishing a little bit. But I don't think that this suggests any kind of bad time or recession coming.
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Besides the political issues, retailers interested in India have to understand the cultural differences and sensitivities. Ultimately India's still a very complicated world for Western companies to understand.
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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.
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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.
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When it's as low as it was, it takes time to start turning it around. Today's report doesn't mean there's a boom, but it certainly is encouraging.
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June numbers were extremely strong, which suggests May's weakness really was the weather -- that it was not just an excuse.
The PPI is just perfect. This is just what we wanted.
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There are absolutely no price pressures in our system.
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It's the biggest market we have, because people don't live in empty houses.