Howard Davidowitz
Howard Davidowitz
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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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Wal-Mart has identified a strategy of urban expansion, and they're not going to walk away from it, ... They know that operating in an urban market is different from the suburbs and I'm sure they were already aware of things like zoning laws. Did they really need to put up a fight in Inglewood? No. What they did here is lay down the marker. Wal-Mart is saying that they've identified a new market and they're going to move it and attack.
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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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Bon-Ton has been losing market share and now it's buying more losers, who have also been losing market share,
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Sears is an American institution that's getting beaten up, ... The company is trying everything it can to stay in business but it's still losing market share everywhere.
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Some retailers are already marking up 40- to 50-percent off signs as we speak.
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They are a small brand. They are not a monster brand. The name of the game for them is to build brand awareness and market share.
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If you've got one name, Macy's, you can save a tremendous amount of money in supplies, marketing cost, advertising umbrella, promotions. You enhance your margin because you're buying more. It's just a fantastic way to do things,
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It's simply a case of Gap missing the mark for the back-to-school season.
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I think this is terrific for consumers. Telemarketers will simply have to reallocate money to more direct mail, television, radio and print advertising,
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I think this is terrific for consumers, ... Telemarketers will simply have to reallocate money to more direct mail, television, radio and print advertising.
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I think the Securities and Exchange Commission better look at this because what you've got is prior misstatement,
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I think there's a message to Martha in here, and part of this may be negotiation.
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I think there will be heavy promotions over the holidays because retailers have not been meeting their sales plans.