Patricia Edwards
Patricia Edwards
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There are so many moving parts right now. It's like watching someone walk through a bedroom in the dark. You're not sure if they're going to make it to the bathroom or stub their toe.
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Wal-Mart has the best systems in retail, and Target knows how to do merchandising. So if Target's (merchandisers) started to go down to Wal-Mart, then I'd be scared.
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Wal-Mart has made no bones about being the place small-town America shops. They're looking to totally change that, and that's a tall order.
absolutely hurting
For the Wal-Mart audience, it's absolutely a factor. It is hurting a lot of people's back-to-school shopping.
promote
If they promote this correctly, it could be huge.
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To skip straight over moderate and go directly to the low- end consumer doesn't make sense. It would be a tough sell for Kohl's to get him, let alone a Wal-Mart.
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People were crying - they couldn't believe that they had come so far. And the very first thing I did was to bring everybody downstairs into the basement so we could have a family prayer meeting.
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There?s not a lot out there that?s new.
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I've been very impressed with the strides they have made, but I think that it's going to be a bumpy road for them in the next four or five quarters.
care customers expect people
They take care of their people. And they expect their people to take care of their customers in response.
certainly
This is certainly broadening it out and making high-end more accessible. It makes a lot of sense.
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This is not going to hit Wal-Mart in the next quarter. It will be hanging out over it like the sword of Damocles.
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They had an absolutely fabulous quarter as far as the holidays were concerned. They had a lot of must- have items that hit you the second you walked in the door.
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The fact of the matter is that when you're doing what is essentially a turnaround and trying to get feet back under something, it doesn't always go that smoothly.