Howard Davidowitz
Howard Davidowitz
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He's done an incredible job of buying $100 worth of real estate for a dollar.
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has been trying very hard to do that for a long time. So far they have been left with a giant loss of market share.
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Kinko's is under assault, and I think what Kinko's is doing is totally rational.
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Kmart went into bankruptcy a cadaver and it'll come out of it a cadaver,
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Kmart said it closed its worst performing stores because it couldn't maintain inventory once its vendors cut themselves off. Now that the stores are shuttered and inventory is up, Kmart is still doing less business than before. The company is still losing money and market share. I'm not sure the company can get past Christmas.
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Is Wal-Mart going after the Hispanic and African-American consumers? Absolutely. They're a significant percentage of Wal-Mart shoppers,
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I think its a brilliant strategy. Make small improvements that will boost sales even 4 to 5 percent over the next few years and that could lead to a dramatic turnaround for the company,
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There is no loyalty to a store -- that's what Federated has gone to school and found out. The place with the best product at the right time and at the right price, that's where the customer loyalty is.
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Unions are focused on this company and these lawsuits are only increasing, ... The other thing that both shareholders and analysts will focus on is: Where does Wal-Mart go from here? In other words, what is next in terms of its growth?
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The performance of the company over the last few years has been very erratic. It's also a smaller player. It was time for Milstein to take it easy and make a gigantic pot of money and turn the ball over to someone else.
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When it's all over, I expect holiday sales to be flat to up 1 percent, which would be the lowest reading since 1990. That's what I see for Christmas.
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We had moderate growth in income but we're borrowing our brains out. The most concerning thing is that the level of savings is at less than one percent of personal income,
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We're likely to see advertisers pull away ... They would much rather invest in Oprah's media publishing empire rather than associate with the Stewart brand now.
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Tommy Hilfiger supplies its clothes to department stores and we all know that that's the weakest channel in retail in terms of sales,