Howard Davidowitz
Howard Davidowitz
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I think there will be heavy promotions over the holidays because retailers have not been meeting their sales plans.
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Retailers are going to promote like gangbusters from the first minute, and it's going to affect margins. I think at best it's going to be fair.
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Within the retail industry Federated is known for catering to the classes and May to the masses. For the May customer, it's an opportunity to get more upscale merchandise that a Bloomingdales' customer is familiar with.
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Tommy Hilfiger supplies its clothes to department stores and we all know that that's the weakest channel in retail in terms of sales,
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He's a brilliant financial engineer. His record is always the same: cut costs, sell assets. That's terrific, only that's no way to run a retail business.
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He's a brilliant financial engineer, ... His record is always the same: cut costs, sell assets. That's terrific, only that's no way to run a retail business.
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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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Those retailers who promoted like mad got the business and they won.
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What happened in the third quarter is that retailers controlled inventory and expenses tremendously. So expect to see pretty good gross margins and expect to see inventories down. Put it all together and earnings will be fair.
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Lean inventories won't help retailers this year if they can't lure customers into their stores.
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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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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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This is specially true of the specialty stores. Retailers have to become more creative if they want to keep customers longer in their stores and if they want them to keep coming back.
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Some retailers are already marking up 40- to 50-percent off signs as we speak.