Howard Davidowitz
Howard Davidowitz
margins sales
The margins are positive, but sales are eroding,
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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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The company's only chance to move to a new chapter is to have a roadmap of everything that's going to happen with Martha, ... The company is set up for her to come back. The question is, what role should she come back in?
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This is moving the deck chairs on the Titanic.
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The energy cost in the equation is grossly underestimated, ... The consumer is already stretched to the limit and doesn't have an extra $1,000 to pay if the home bill goes up.
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The guy that drops by the wayside becomes history, and theoretically he'll be replaced by new concepts in urban clothing and shoes. New concepts are popping up and they are popping up like mad -- as fast as they have ever come if not faster, and they'll want to grow rapidly.
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The growth of lifestyle centers is absolutely tied to the strong performance of the luxury sector.
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You will still see 50 percent off on merchandise but maybe not 70 to 80 percent off.
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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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Lacy is 100 percent accountable. This is supposed to be one of his biggest areas of expertise. He supposedly fixed this problem before and here we go again. The bottom line is, who's supposed to be watching?
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I think the advertisers are going to go away. She's tarnished. And in looking to the future will she plead guilty? If you're an advertiser, you're facing a woman who may go on trial.
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If you are able to build a few stores that are successful and bring in a couple of million dollars each, the department stores will come to you and you can make a deal.
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If you are in a no-growth segment or a negative growth segment, your focus has to be on cost-cutting.
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If you look at what's going on in retail, there's more and more emphasis on price.