Richard Hastings
Richard Hastings
Richard Cory Hastingsis a Canadian association football player, who has played for Inverness Caledonian Thistle, Ross County, Grazer AK, MVV Maastricht, Hamilton Academical and Brora Rangers...
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July sales were weaker than expected. Summer can be a volatile season for retailers but I am a little surprised by the weakness in apparel. I'll be keeping an eye on discretionary spending going forward.
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Management has been defending the brand. If we look at the last six years, it's become clear that they have made no progress.
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Management is concerned about return on invested capital and return on shareholder equity and that's the focus. Everything else takes a backseat to that.
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January is not just clearance month anymore. It's winter-season full-price selling, because Christmas and holiday merchandising is really promotional. These days, that's when you see the really deep discounts.
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We're already seeing heavy markdowns particularly in apparel,
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The assortments weren't there when cold weather snapped back, and shoppers were curious about something other than a bikini to match their mittens.
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I continue to believe that the effects of higher gas prices on the consumer are overestimated. Most of the important measures of discretionary spending such as furniture, lawn and garden and food sales held up nicely.
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This holiday season Wal-Mart hasn't been able to differentiate itself from the competition or really take advantage of the early wave of promotional activity.
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The holiday is clearly growing in importance for the industry. Halloween is fun, enjoyable and doesn't require a big investment to celebrate. The primary focus is the child and families typically do all they can to make sure the children have fun.
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All that a week ago was neatly put out there. Today Mother Nature took all of it.
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The company is showing stable business improvement and there's a higher probability the stock will shoot higher in the near-term.
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The management shakeup is no surprise, and we welcome the change, ... We believe Lewis is the better person to lead a customer-centric business.
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The economy still has to prove itself and create millions of new jobs.
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The capital markets are so liquid, despite some of the increase in borrowing costs, that they create wonderful choices for consumer companies like Tommy Hilfiger and J. Crew to go private, ... break themselves into pieces, gobble someone else's pieces or just try to raise money to get bigger.