Investors may appreciate the chance to look outside the tech sector. We think that retailers who are able to cater to the home will do very well, ... Since the middle of 1998, we have seen a switch. Suddenly people spend proportionately more money on things for the home - on home enhancement, we call it - than they do on apparel.
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The first half is going to be a very, very difficult one, and at this moment it's going to be impossible to say how the second half is going to be, ... The second half is likely to be better than the first, but remember, most retailers are coming off a very weak Christmas and that puts tremendous pressure on gross margins.Kurt Barnard
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One word - dismal. There's nothing else to be said but absolutely dismal.
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I think the future lies in two different kinds of Internet players. The one is the bricks and clicks, and that will be the dominant factor in the business, ... The other one will be highly specialized pure play click operations that carry things, do things that are simply not available elsewhere through other channels.
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We think consumer spending will go back to the kind of level we expected for the fourth quarter before the attacks happened, and that level was not one of great strength. We were thinking that it might be 2 to 3 percent above last year on a same-store basis, and last year was pretty bad. We would be coming off a weak base.
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It was disappointing. A lot of stores told us that when they opened at 7 or 8 in the morning with special deals good for two hours, crowds were beginning to mass. But at the stroke of 9, when those sales were supposed to end, the crowds disappeared like a snowflake in the palm of your hand.
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