Howard Davidowitz
Howard Davidowitz
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Also, most big retail chains placed their Christmas orders months ago and the Christmas inventory was already in the pipeline before (the) SARS (outbreak),
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Other holidays have become less important. Halloween is the exception. It has become more important.
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Penney had no choice but to improve on fashion.
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The jewel that Federated would want is the Marshall Field's flagship State Street store in Chicago.
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Buyers beware. This kind of move is not sustainable, ... The company went into bankruptcy a cadaver and it's coming out a cadaver.
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In retailing, the whole name of the game is to feed off your competitors' footsteps. Wal-Mart is the biggest traffic generator around. It gets over 150 million customers a week.
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Over the last year, they lost $60 million,
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I think the real story last month was that in spite of higher interest rates, exploding energy costs and debt levels, the American consumer rolls on.
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Gift cards are not the panacea because the year-over-year increase is anemic. Because the markdowns in January will be more than last year, retailers will see less dollar impact of additional sales from gift cards compared to last year.
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I have never believed that they're going to attract top dollar.
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At the end of the day, if the quotas stick, the bottom line is that consumers will be paying more for some clothing items by next year.
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One big difference was that last year retailers kept promotions under tight control. Things were more panicky this year.
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The company has remodeled its stores several times and is also trying to sell its credit business . But when the smoke clears, it's anyone's guess as to how many more years Sears can go on like this.
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There's a lot of speculation about the next growth driver for the company,