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When people come to our stores to buy a new PC or new software for their PC, we want to be able to offer them a broad set of choices, immediate availability and a great retail experience. We agree with Microsoft that it's best to do this right -- and in this case it's delivering Windows Vista-based PCs with confidence in January 2007.

We will continue to monitor vending machines, just like we do any competitor in the home entertainment space. But we think it makes more sense to invest our money where the majority of customers want to rent ? and that is in our stores and increasingly online.

We will continue to add new stores at a measured pace and expect to open a total of 40 new stores in fiscal '06.

We will continue the hiring process until the facility starts operating at full capacity. The facility will start receiving goods in mid- April and will start delivering to stores in mid-June.

We would like to open even more stores (in the county), but that really depends on available real estate.

We would be able to put them in nearby stores to where they live now, just over the state line. They are all close to the border.

This report is simply a listing of all stores we expect to open over the next 12 to 14 months, and many are already under construction. Since the unions oppose us wherever we locate our stores, this new stolen document doesn't seem to provide them any advantage.

The reason we pulled the holiday issue from stores is because we just launched a new perfume called NOW and we had to make space on the counter for the product.

There has been, and continues to be, a strong shift of consumer spending away from traditional department stores and specialty stores over to discount stores.

We kind of do our own thing as an independent. We are able to make decisions and moves that company stores would have to wait for corporate permission to do, ... I have no problems with Supervalu. They have addressed an issue that we all had and that was they tried to play both sides of the fence (wholesaler and retail outlet). I wasn't surprised they announced they are selling their corporate stores.

We thought the shift in the Memorial Day weekend this year to about a week later than last year could hurt holiday sales. That was only an isolated case. I think favorable weather probably had more of an impact that brought people out to stores to shop.

We think these results indicate the critical role Web shopping is beginning to play in the U.S. economy. Last year was the beta testing year online for holiday shopping?now we believe the gauntlet for traditional bricks and mortar stores has been thrown down.

We think these are going to be 'convenient' stores rather than convenience stores in the traditional sense. It strikes us as a vote of no- confidence in the traditional U.S. supermarket format.

We think there's very few of them that can be long-term buys because of the fashion aspect of it, ... In Gap's case, what's happened here is that they've acknowledged that they have missed fashion but, in terms of their inventory management, they'll be delivering more frequently to the stores with less inventory commitment to each delivery. That should minimize their markdowns and improve their gross margins.

This time around, there are not only more U.S. stores in Canada, but the Canadian stores appear to have more products than you would find in the U.S..

We got lots of positive feedback from consumers in stores that saw our displays. They thought it was a great way to recognize our local agriculture.

We believe our competitors have shown irrational exuberance with Christmas forecasts, ... We believe the average consumer is worried about higher gasoline prices, jobs and doesn't believe he will benefit from the stock market. With this climate, if you're just a 'me-too' retailer, you'll be in a world of hurt. The department stores will suffer but the discounters Wal-Mart and Target will do well.

With "Batman and Robin," I was opening toy stores in Sydney, Australia. I had awards for selling more "Batman" merchandise than any human being in the world.

With ""Batman and Robin,"" I was opening toy stores in Sydney, Australia. I had awards for selling more ""Batman"" merchandise than any human being in the world.

The project had its challenges. Each of the retail stores remained open and operating as faade construction took place. This required significant pre-planning and constant communication.

We have seven suburban New York stores that people can go to if they can't get to the Manhattan location.

There are lots of little mom and pop furniture stores in L.A., which is perfect for me because I like to mix the old with the new.

There are lots of good products in the luxury lines at department stores and there are lots of junk. The same with the drugstore brands.

We've invested a lot in improving our stores and we're working heavily on our marketing. But it all starts with the merchandise. If you don't have the things people want, they're not going to come in.

While it is always difficult to make these kinds of decisions, it is occasionally necessary to close stores based on performance and growth potential.

Without stores like that, veterans would have a hard time.

With stores like Topshop and H&M you can find really great stuff, but I do like designer things as well, and I'm lucky because they approach me to wear their stuff. I really love Miu Miu.

With stores being built all around you reducing your sales and reducing your profit, you've got very little chance of working for 15 or 20 years and walking away with anything.

We have more cargo coming in than last year, largely because of the end of textile and apparel quotas, but it's flowing much more smoothly from the ships to the stores than we saw in 2004,

We will have our Christmas set-up in stores by early September.

We had stores running out of gas the past couple days.

Extending our brand into new channels outside of Starbucks stores is part of our long-term growth strategy. The test market phase of this new product rollout confirmed what we already knew -- Starbucks coffee lovers want this product.

We've been one of the biggest traveling western stores in California. Now we want to expand in Merced.

We're hoping to help a segment that's already shopping at our stores but wasn't necessarily finding what was essential to them.

We see problematic actual execution. Stores are in disarray. Advertised items are not available. Scanners don't work with the bar codes. Those are things we would focus on right away to try to improve.

We see it every day in our economy. These folks are customers in our stores and employees in our workplace. We hope immigration law gets it figured out.

We've been cautious for a while on the retailers. The one thing that's in their favor is that in the overall spending environment, you'll see people tend to go to these stores more than other product categories because there a lot of excitement, a lot going on.

Traffic in the area is no longer sufficient to support a store. The hope is that many of the employees ... will transition to other stores in their market.

You are not going to see gray-and-blue stores being built anymore.

While we are seeing some softness in many categories, comparable sales performance in our North America retail stores continues to be impacted by weakness in desktops, laptops, monitors and printers and the related 'market basket' of higher margin goods historically linked to purchases of these items.

While the strong showing at the retail stores and particularly consumer direct was impressive ... margins overall continue under pressure and working capital trends appear to be deteriorating.

While the rest of the competition continues to promote rather aggressively to drive traffic, Abercrombie has done a great job with their merchandising and brand marketing to get people into the stores without discounting.

While there is still much hard work ahead, we are pleased with the early progress we are making in addressing in-stock levels, customer service and store traffic, ... Nearly all of our vendors have resumed shipments to us and in-stock levels in the stores have improved.

You assemble a very large site, then you put all the box stores on the outside and in the middle you create this main street lifestyle village with parallel or diagonal parking. One of the tricks is to make it look like it was built over time so it's part of an organic market rather than just building it in one fell swoop with everything looking the same.

You can let your stores grow old and tired for a period, but if someone comes in with brand new shiny stores and competitive prices, you'll go out of business quickly. They need to keep themselves up and invest in store upgrades.

We had a record-breaking weekend with nearly half of initial shipments sold, with many stores selling completely out of stock.

We've had so many stores like this opening and closing around here I hope it sticks. I used to have to go to Folsom for socks, so from both a personal and coaching standpoint it's great to have something like this locally. Their high school designs are unique and the way parents like to buy things supporting their kids' schools it's definitely a concept that should do well in this area.

We also clean up the cabinets and if necessary repaint them, before holding them in stores awaiting call-off by Orange. Refurbishment saves several thousands of pounds per cabinet compared to purchasing new product.

We already have home delivery service of our milk and dairy products that have been very well-received in Indianapolis, so we know the (retail) stores will be successful, too.

We're swapping 12 stores for 12 stores. We'd identified 13 of the 15 for divestiture. This was the best deal for the properties.

Upscale stores have done very well because their customers have been fortunate to amass a bit of wealth, so they're not worried about their jobs. But people who live paycheck to paycheck have to be careful, and they look at the price tag before looking at the product.

The reason that we are in the position we're in is because of all the non-union stores that are around us that give a lower rate than we do, and therefore we have to maintain our presence in the market by maintaining our level that we presently have.

There is spotty evidence that in some stores inventories are running low, but considering that the action that's in the stores is not particularly hot these days, that (low inventories) may not be the worst possible fate. In many cases a lot of stores reduced the orders they placed, and in some cases, canceled orders, which is exactly what's happening.

This week, the whole key for us is to keep in stock when you expect your stores to be crowded,

Those stores will be in transition over a four-week period. It takes a lot to get these things done.

What Point does is they target particular brands into particular age groups or economic groups. They watch the development of their stores carefully.

What J.C. Penney needs to do is to make the stores they do have palatable, pleasant to shop, and all of this needs to be done with an eye toward recapturing the market they've lost,

We have about 16 stand-alone stores in Japan selling the Barbie clothes that are geared towards adults and we hope to expand to 20 stores by the end of the year.

We have a big opportunity in China, ... We think the number of stores here can rival the number in North America.

We have 53 stores in California and we consider it to be a major area of expansion.

We have 365 stores in six northeastern states and each of those stores has a demonstrated commitment to the local area. This is just an example of what we do to help out, and the two pharmacists here are doing a great job.

We knew demand would outstrip supply for some time. I have been told we'll get additional supplies, so I can only advise customers keep checking back with stores and on the website.

You have to look for something that the chain stores don't carry. Don't think that Wal-Mart will buy your product tomorrow. Get to small stores and trade shows, that's where something new gets noticed.

What we are seeing is that consumers' cautious spending is now stretching to the low-priced discount stores as well as to the other stores. ...Today, saving money is chic. Bargain hunting is fashionable.

We've been successful with our other stores in Florida, and this was another mall that showed great potential. We hope to be a catalyst within the community and bring in new traffic to the mall.

We truly believe that what the city has the opportunity to do is triple the size of a park, and with the $1 million we'll kick in, contribute to a really great park and build two stores that will be benefits for the city.

What stores are around, what stores aren't around, what advertisers want to present as an ideal woman or man, passing prejudices, things that you would never say now that you could say then.

We went into a couple of sports equipment stores and asked if they had heard of Darren Bennett, ... They all said he's great; he made it to America.

What is worrisome about that is the U.S. standard of living. I think it is very difficult to envision our standard of living being preserved if we're in an economy where all people do is flip hamburgers, wait on people in stores and sue each other. It's not much of a basis for an economy.

The pundits that said department stores are dying are wrong. This is a different channel. What you get there, in terms of brands and variety, you can't get elsewhere. There's no substitutability.

The pundits that said department stores are dying are wrong, ... This is a different channel. What you get there, in terms of brands and variety, you can't get elsewhere. There's no substitutability.

When I started collecting, it was a lot harder. You could get comics at newsstands or grocery stores maybe, but if you missed an issue, your best chance was to send away to the dealers in New York who advertised in the back of the comics.

We know that it's a large warehouse with propane tanks and multiple pallets. We're talking about the pallets that you see in the warehouse stores that are three stories high of wooden pallets that are burning right now. There are also plumbing supplies, roofing supplies, and other multiple things inside this warehouse that are fully involved.

We don't want two separate cultures but to blend it into one great culture. ... The idea is to make the stores more competitive while staying focused on the customer.

You got extra time to shop. You have warmer weather, and you can buy what's now in the stores - spring apparel and spring decorations.

When Crash comes out, we'll give it good placement in the stores again because it's high-profile and our customers will be interested in it.

We are very pleased with this new distribution and are especially proud of gaining our first-ever pasta distribution with the Publix Supermarkets chain, which operates over 700 supermarkets in the Southeast and now carries six Monterey Gourmet Foods whole wheat items. In total, the company's refrigerated whole wheat pasta line is now carried in more than 4,000 supermarkets and club stores nationwide.

We are going to be using kiosks extensively ... and we will begin deploying them in strategic locations in stores where customers are placing special orders in the next couple of years.

We have everything for the home under one roof. We intend our stores to sell only our products. That contributes to our uniqueness.

Be sure to carefully read the ingredients listing, especially if you suffer from food allergies or are trying to cut down on your trans fat intake. While many food manufacturers began making changes to their labels in 2005, stores are not under any obligation to remove products from their shelves that were packaged prior to these rules.

Even though many retailers saw strong sales this past weekend, companies will not be basking in their success. Stores are already warming up for the next four weeks because the holiday season is far from over.

Belmont's has always been an environmentally-friendly business. This is a chance for a state-wide recycling program to become uniform and work together with other stores throughout the state." ()

Because in our clippings I see a lot of articles that are very positive about all the stores that are voted by local communities.

Every retailer does this every year. They look at the stores to determine if they're providing the appropriate customer service, and if they fit in with the strategy.

At this point in the buying season, parents have only spent $71.96 so far, so there is time for stores to get aggressive and drive more sales,

Discount stores have really become an increasing portion of consumers' expenditures. Now there's talk of fluctuating energy prices, job layoffs, and people are looking for the best value possible. So we believe the discount stores are going to benefit disproportionately from the tax rebate. We expect Wal-Mart will be the leader in July.

Discount stores are doing very well, and home-oriented retailers are doing very well. But most of the others are dragging their heels.

Cool has become formulaic. You can walk into stores today, and it's all there: Anyone can buy what's perceived as cool.

Consider this: Apple says its stores are now making more than $1 billion in sales per quarter. Just two years ago, the stores were making $1 billion a year -- and at that time they were the fastest-growing retail operation in history, beating the previous record holder The Gap to $1 billion annual sales in just three years, according to Ron Johnson, the executive in charge of Apple's retail operations. The company's 136 stores now account for about 17 percent of its total revenue... Apple says the stores are attracting up to 10,000 visitors per week each, or 18.1 million visitors a year in total. These are extraordinary figures.

Customers behave a little differently online than in the stores. Shopping in stores is a full sensory experience. So if you're testing something for stores, you'd want to test it in the in-store environment.

Customers are shopping with us. They love our merchandise and the value we offer. They are responding to the enhancements we've made to our stores and our increased marketing and promotional events. This response tells us that our strategy is right on track.

Credit card interchange fees are the third-largest expense for many chain drug stores after rent and the cost of labor.

Anna's Linen stores are mostly in what are called 'B' type locations or strip malls. We think that there's a lot of real estate currently available in that format. The other positive for the retailer is its appeal to ethnic communities, which we believe are underserved in the value-priced home furnishings arena.

Enabling deskless workers expands a company's collaboration zone and gives stores the ability to communicate with each other.

Elephants indisputably like booze, especially Asian elephants where we have many reports of them getting into rice-wine stores and drinking the stuff.

Drive-up stores represent the next generation for McDonald's in China.

Drug stores are attracting more people in buildings and not enough online.

Early accounts coming in to us say that people are running across malls to the department stores to take advantage of the best deals.

E-Retailers used to be at a disadvantage because customers can't touch and feel their products, but they've figured out that there's a whole lot more they can offer to make up for that. Today's online stores have evolved significantly, offering advances such as 360 degree views of products, customer reviews, side by side product comparisons, and extensive product information and specifications that often exceed what is available in a store or catalogue.

Federated will be converting the stores in fall 2006.