Nancy Ford
Nancy Ford
consumer data early economy growth healthy indication line meeting sales state
Friday's same-store sales data are an early indication that shoppers are meeting retailers' expectations, ... The sales growth is in line with the healthy state of the economy and consumer confidence.
everybody painful
It's going to be painful for some people. Is everybody going to be happy? No. And they shouldn't be.
age-and-aging experience judgment left run
You take all of the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.
gift
Swapping merchandise and cashing in on your gift certificates.
change guys situation
Guys in this situation often do change their mind.
envelope happy phenomenal pushes quick
He's an interesting commodity. He's got very, very quick feet. He's very very athletic. He pushes the envelope all the time, every play. Because of that, you get some phenomenal plays, but you've got some things you're not going to be very happy with.
compete concerned days five games lose number putting quite starting
I wasn't comfortable putting him out there in the starting lineup, ... He's yet to scrimmage in the full-court yet and if you look at the number of days he's been out, it's quite a few. I was concerned that if he would go out there and try to play, that we could now lose him for another five games down the road. I want to see him get out there and compete and go up and down in a scrimmage first.
appears continued reasonably retail sales
It appears that same-store retail sales have continued to do reasonably well.
despite early gain meet modest sales
Despite this mini-surge in spending, the modest gain in same-store sales did not meet early projections.
compete concerned days five games lose number putting quite starting
I wasn't comfortable putting him out there in the starting lineup. He's yet to scrimmage in the full-court yet and if you look at the number of days he's been out, it's quite a few. I was concerned that if he would go out there and try to play, that we could now lose him for another five games down the road. I want to see him get out there and compete and go up and down in a scrimmage first.
consumers frenzy holiday shopping trying
Consumers have been on a shopping frenzy for so long, they may be trying now to 'pace themselves' in preparation for the upcoming holiday shopping season.
came fourth middle pitching screwed yogi
When Mel came up in 1964 in the middle of the season, I was his pitching coach, but I was also pitching every fourth day besides. Yogi Berra was our manager. That's why it was all screwed up.
among best biological decades known shown sleep time
We've known that sleep disturbances are among the best biological markers for depression, but this is the first time we've shown that those disturbances can show up decades before the depression.
brands outside promotions time
We want to give brands more time around audiences, while still having our promotions outside the classroom.