Howard Davidowitz
Howard Davidowitz
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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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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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You see the guy out on the street selling coffee, donuts, fruit - his business is destroyed. There are a lot of small businesses that will close or that won't be able to pay their bills next year because of the strike.
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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.
brilliant cut financial record retail run sell
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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As a negotiating strategy, I would assume Saks is trying to package the whole thing -- to sell the good with the bad.
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There's a tremendous profit margin on the tchotchkes they're selling and I understand the appeal of that. But the most valuable thing that Tiffany has is their brand name. You can't be everything to everybody.
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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.
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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'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,
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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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In the toy industry, about 60 percent of the independent retailers have already gone out of business.
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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,