Small retailers don't have that kind of a luxury. That said, smaller retailers usually have a better pulse on their stores.

Ellen Davis

College students have money to spend, and stores are going all out - they have wandered into a gold mine.

Ellen Davis

With so much uncertainty about the eventual positioning/future of Liz Claiborne's department store partners (former May Department Stores door closures, potential spin-offs of Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor, repositioning of Sears), we would not be surprised to see Liz Claiborne management take a cautious approach to 2006 guidance.

Elizabeth Montgomery

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.

Edward Lampert

They're several hundred stores around the country, but there's room for thousands. It's a great way to sell things, and most people aren't even aware that these things exist.

Edward Gorkes

The company created and defined its own category, and now the name is synonymous with organic food stores. It's similar to what Starbucks did for the coffee shop. You can't name the No. 2 coffee chain.

Edward Aaron

This is a good, strong list of stores. With all these stores, it speaks to the overall health of the market. These are not stores that just decide on a whim to open, so they are optimistic about the region going forward.

Ed Nakfoor

You can go into the stores in the game, and into the game in the stores. It's all pretty weird.

Ed Bartlett

Certainly Katrina eliminated boating activities in that part of the Gulf Coast, but for West Marine, 15 stores were directly affected by the hurricane. Last year, they had 60 stores in the path of major hurricanes, and it affected earnings by about a penny. At least with respect to the hurricanes, it should be less (of an impact) than what happened last year.

Ed Aaron

I just bought it because I was buying other stores, and I over-bought and had to sell.

Eugene Needham

The stores have become a hangout for teen girls.

Eugene Fram

There's been a lot of activity in restaurants and stores on fears there will be damage to their operations.

Evan Olsen

Our existing brands have a fairly strong and wide distribution in the stores that they are already sold. We were excited about the possibility of working with Kohl's to create new brands for their customers.

Estee Lauder

We don't have enough inventory to service our stores right now.

Ernie Reed

Ninety percent of our tickets are sold at convenience stores with gas. If you live close to the border, your buying habits will typically be to buy where gasoline is cheap. If you smoke cigarettes, you're probably going to be going to a South Carolina location.

Ernie Passailaigue

You need to be very disciplined and a huge amount of training. The hardest part is to ensure that all our stores around the world are aware of the culture and service.

Ermenegildo Zegna

We want to make sure that women are getting their prescriptions filled in the stores that they go to.

Erin Matson

Both stores complement one another.

Eric Fitting

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.

Erik Autor

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

Eric Brewer

The first thing they need to do is sell the lousy stores.

Eric Bosshard

We have more stores in Florida than any other state.

Eric Blaesing