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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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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We had a strong back-to-school season and discretionary spending on low-priced items has trended higher. These are good indications for Halloween, which typically sets the tone for the rest of the holiday shopping season.
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Halloween this year falls on a Friday. That should be helpful for retailers because the party carries into the weekend.
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Halloween will be a slam-dunk for merchants despite the weakening consumer spending trends.
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The holiday is clearly growing in importance for the industry. Halloweens 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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The pundits that said department stores are dying are wrong. This is a different channel. What you get there, in terms of brands and variety, you can't get elsewhere. There's no substitutability.
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The pundits that said department stores are dying are wrong, ... This is a different channel. What you get there, in terms of brands and variety, you can't get elsewhere. There's no substitutability.
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Wet Seal is a turnaround situation that has been helped by strong industry vendor credit support and solid communications with their vendors.
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The store of the future will be more of a 'do-it-itself' event with not much human interaction. These new systems will eventually be able to recognize your tastes and preferences and what you like to buy better than you yourself know.
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The risk for Wal-Mart is that as wages improve, consumers will go to alternative retailers such as Home Depot, Gap, Bed, Bath & Beyond or a Best Buy for better quality and more variety of products,
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Electronics is certainly carving a big chunk of money out of the pockets of shoppers. Back-to-school is increasingly about how cool is your phone, or how new and cool is your notebook -- that $1,350 notebook -- and students are judging each other by their gizmos at least as much as by their clothing.
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Prices are much firmer in the high-end product arena than in the moderate price discount arena.
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People are still crazy. Sure, gas is expensive, but look on the bright side. People are still crazy and they're going shopping.
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We're already seeing heavy markdowns particularly in apparel,