Bob Buchanan
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"Robert Gordon "Bob" Buchanan" is a retired Major League Baseball pitcher. He played during two seasons at the major league level, playing for the Cincinnati Reds and Kansas City Royals. He was drafted by the Reds in the 2nd round of the 1979 Major League Baseball Draft/1979 amateur draft. Buchanan played his first professional season with their Rookie league Billings Mustangs in , and his last with their Triple-A club, the Nashville Sounds in .

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It's feast or famine. Some are getting (sales growth through discounts), some are getting it at full price.

It looks like in some cases, there's going to be some disappointing results coming out.

Good technology is ensuring that the right product is in the store at the right time.

We've gone from a situation where retailers were wildly excited about the prospects for 1996 to one where reality has set in.

Federated (Department Stores) was below plan. Target was well below plan, ... We have enough data to know the month was not good.

Clearly, there are some overtones for the industry, but I think largely Wal-Mart has some of its own issues. I think they are still very sloppy with store-level execution.

It looks like sales really happened in the last few days, following a pattern we've seen in the last few years.

It's certainly disappointing by any measure, ... I think the industry is going to be close to flat, with a zero- to-1 percent rise. Coming in, we thought the month would be up 2 to 3 percent.