Those retailers who promoted like mad got the business and they won.
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The most important people who have to be motivated are the store employees they're your life blood. Federated knows this.
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I think the advertisers are going to go away. She's tarnished. And in looking to the future will she plead guilty If you're an advertiser, you're facing a woman who may go on trial.
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