Eric Beder
Eric Beder
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Suppliers are getting paid on time. And if you look just seasonally, this is one of the periods of lowest inventories for retailers, so this shouldn't be a period where you should have a lot of financial pressure on you.
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This week, in terms of the Christmas season, is probably the least important week, ... The last two weeks are probably going to be the most important. You have the widest spread between Christmas and New Year's that you can possibly have this year, so after this week, things really start to get interesting.
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Every teen retailer has cynical shirts because it's a generation whose values are almost completely cynical. They're so clued into marketing and the wired world that they look at things with a more jaundiced eye than their parents.
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Everyone wants to capture that full-price selling that you get from gift cards after Christmas. This is a perfect way to do it. Since it's 'found' money, (consumers) will pay full price for something that's kind of cool.
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the whole urban style has been co-opted by preppies.
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The weather has been a boon for players who shipped spring goods early.
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The store sizes are complementary. The Northeast has been a huge success for the company, and this is the last opportunity to enter the region in a big manner in one fell swoop.
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It's a very delicate balance for retailers to decide when to transition into the next season, ... Some retailers hope launching back-to-school lines early will result in better margins. But if a clothing chain picks out a trend and puts it into stores too early and that trend flops with consumers, it leads to lost dollars. Retailers don't want to be stuck with extra inventory so they'll start putting out the sales signs fast.
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A lot of their problem has to do with the fact that the stores are old. A lot of Kmart stores have kind of gone to seed. They haven't been renovated, and Kmart never really had a program to do that.
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A lot of their problem has to do with the fact that the stores are old, ... A lot of Kmart stores have kind of gone to seed. They haven't been renovated, and Kmart never really had a program to do that.
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The only reason the company's alive is that Kmart has the best stable of licensed brands.
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We know all this stuff, let's just go do it. Wall Street was highly skeptical at first, but they've done a great job.
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The real question is how the rise in gasoline prices is going to affect the holiday season. I think this will be the toughest test of the consumer in at least four years.