Howard Davidowitz
Howard Davidowitz
ball company easy few gigantic last money performance pot smaller time turn
The performance of the company over the last few years has been very erratic. It's also a smaller player. It was time for Milstein to take it easy and make a gigantic pot of money and turn the ball over to someone else.
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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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Most of these deals work because of cheap money. Money is getting more expensive. The potential buyers will be more cautious. They are reworking their numbers to see if they can get a return.
fickle game impress money numbers potential public rule stays
The rule of the game is go public for the money when you have the numbers to impress potential investors. Retail, and especially apparel, is so fickle that nothing stays the same forever.
business closed company cut inventory less losing maintain market money past performing stores sure themselves worst
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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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,
direct money print radio simply terrific
I think this is terrific for consumers. Telemarketers will simply have to reallocate money to more direct mail, television, radio and print advertising,
magical question stock
The advertisers are gone. It's a question of getting them back. But getting every one of them back is priced into the stock. The stock is priced as if everything she does is magical and perfect.
martha message
I think there's a message to Martha in here, and part of this may be negotiation.
cleaning concerned easy exposure inventory issue overall
I'm concerned about what the markdown exposure will be to overall sales, ... Cleaning up inventory is a big issue and it's not easy to fix.
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Here they are with similar size stores to Bed, Bath & Beyond. They're in similar kinds of locations. And they're in similar kinds of demographics,
far giant hard left loss market trying
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.
gone percent retailers toy
In the toy industry, about 60 percent of the independent retailers have already gone out of business.
apparel decides designs fall flat great needs present target
If Kmart decides apparel is critical, and it can make it a success, it needs to do what Target has done: Present great designs that are unique, well priced and well presented. Otherwise, this will fall flat on its face,