These are all of the things that super Wal-Marts kill when they are scattered over the county, and I fear that if you put a Wal-Mart in each little precinct, you'll have no other business. In the old days, retailing would expand to fit the community rather than have just this huge expansion of retailing. The whole idea of planning is to direct resources where they are needed. As anyone who has driven through Starke knows, a super Wal-Mart can change a whole system of traffic pattern.
Quotes about retailing (16 Quotes)
Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing.
Can consumer spending continue to run the engine of retailing I think the answer to that is as long as people feel secure in their jobs they will continue to spend. I don't think that we've seen consumer psychology change even though unemployment numbers are higher.
No one in my family had a retail or marketing background. They were professionals. They didn't understand just what I was doing by going into retailing. After I started, though, it got into my blood. I knew this was what I wanted.
Attention, holiday shoppers Retailing powerhouses Best Buy, Circuit City, and Wal-Mart may not be the best places to buy electronics, ... Those chains rated only middling to below average on price, selection, and service.
Rapidly evolving and newly emerging technologies have forever changed the ways GM shares information and conducts business in the automotive retailing industry. We want to leverage the capabilities of these IT suppliers to help GM strengthen its relationship with its retail dealers and, in turn, provide the dealers with the tools that deliver greater flexibility to facilitate vehicle orders, manage vehicle and service parts inventories and, above all, sell GM cars and trucks.
If we didn't have retailing, we wouldn't have downtown as we know it. Anytime you can be a part of a district that's doing well, your business is bound to benefit.
And industry lines will start to blur, too. Why isn't Wal-Mart in banking Why don't they have travel-agency reservations online Why doesn't American Airlines have retailing and a bank ... You're going to see cross-industry competition.
Our core business has been really strong. That's to say, just our retail stores grew at 6 percent year over year. And again, this was a depressed quarter. We've actually been 7 percent or more in most quarters and we expect it to be that way during the fall period. That's one of the strongest performances in all of retailing. So our core retailing business remains exceptionally strong.
I left Penney's in 1969 to join the Nixon administration and I didn't come to the Senate until 1992, but I brought with me a residual understanding of retailing and retailing issues. That expertise was helpful and I did some things, frankly, that were helpful to the J. C. Penney Co. If it's good public policy, the fact that I brought that experience and expertise with me probably contributed to it.
My brethren, when God first began to love you, He gave you all that He ever meant to give you in the lump, and eternity of time is that in which He is retailing of it out.
There's a few areas in the economy that aren't doing as well, such as retailing. The central bank may keep interest rates on hold this year.
According to Robert LeBlanc, general manager for WebSphere for IBM Software Group, Staples became an early adopter of SOA two years ago, working closely with IBM to build a scalable, integrated, multichannel retailing solution. They needed scalability, because the old system did not scale, ... and they started to grow and expand their business. And they really needed a new style of architecture. ... They wanted to go over the system once and reuse the pieces over and over again as they were bringing new services to their customer set.
Retailing is retailing, and Kmart was not where it should have been. From that point of view, I think that new blood has got to be a benefit.
Retailing, it's always true that there is some items that I wish we had a lot more of like the iPod and there is some items I wish we had a lot less of.
They're worried about publishing and retailing like everyone else in the business, and this may be a way for them to stay on top of this.