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In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.

Julia Child

I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.

Andy Warhol

Most of Idaho only runs a backlog of about three days worth of food in their grocery stores, because we don't have any warehouses. If you don't have shipments backing that up, you could potentially have problems.

Vaughn Killeen

When you combine all stores into one brand, you have the economies of scale. It's a very smart move.

Patrice Duker

Each of those stores gave an employee a check for $1,000. Overall, the company (H-E-B) was out of a total of $20,000.

Karen Rodarte

[Pipeline repairs are] a good first step to helping us resolve the supply shortage, ... But I think we've still got several more days to go before they get (the fuel flow) up to a percentage that will allow us to fuel most of our convenience stores and get adequate gas supplies back into them.

David Bunch

Chico's has new things all the time in its stores and it's built a very loyal customer base.

Shawn Kravetz

Our goal is to drive business and competitors' business to our other stores and Blockbuster Online. This transfer of revenue is great for our profitability.

Randy Hargrove

We are pleased to open five new stores in April as a part of our planned 14 to 16 new stores this fiscal year. We look forward to continuing to bring Golf Galaxy's unique interactive store concept to so many new markets and to continuing our expansion into the greater New York metropolitan area.

Randy Zanatta

Opening stores is something we do very well and we are continuing to work with local organizations to not only handle those issues but also to help other area business to take advantage of our traffic.

Joseph Roth

Grocery stores are open in all these areas. And I think people are losing sight of that.

Frances Marine

There was a rumor that I was dead. I happened to be off work that day and I had a beeper and the batteries had died, so I was just shopping and looking round book stores. People were frantically trying to get in touch with me and people were calling hospitals and the news people were calling my agent trying to see if it was true.

Alyson Hannigan

I wake up and put my head on a pillow every night looking for opportunity in the music and movie worlds. We are interested in growing sales; these are important areas to our stores, and we are a growth company.

David Porter (us Navy)

They reported much better earnings than we suspected. It was all based on Fingerhut being better than plan. Department stores were actually below plan, so the quality of that (earnings) improvement reflects better delinquency rates than anticipated.

Steve Kernkraut

I would love to go through March. We've got a lot of good fruit on the bushes and as long as our chain stores support us and do not switch to California berries, people can have fresh local berries.

Tommy Brock

We don't want to compete with the grocery stores. But there were enough people wanting them so we're bringing them back.

Tom Speck

It reminds me of Miami when I was growing up in the 1950s. They've got grocery stores that make a 7-Eleven look like a Wal-Mart.

Billy Bowman

There is not that big of a difference actually. We cook the same way, our skin color matches, and nobody can recognize who is Indian or Mexican. Usually, when I go to stores, everybody starts speaking Spanish to me.

Manjit Singh

These types of stores usually locate in an area where people have a higher education level, a higher median age and smaller family sizes. The community is usually wealthier and has discretionary income.

David Livingston

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.

Britt Beemer

Long lines are a reality in many stores. There are peak hours when it's really difficult for patients, and it may be more convenient to use one of these delivery systems.

Patricia Harris

There are some excellent city shops, but watch out for the big box stores where guy selling you skis today is moving onto patio furniture next month.

Joe Cutts

It's not just for theater audiences, it's for women. We advertise in grocery stores, doctor's offices. . . . Not everyone has seen it and we need to go back to places until everyone has seen it. It has such an important message.

Kathryn Conte

We're always looking at what the competition is doing, ... But do we want to become like Amazon? No. Amazon is an online shopping mall. It benefited from building a great asset early in the game. We're about store integration and expanding the customer reach to Wal-Mart stores.

John Fleming

They're stores that are by and large not in great locations. They [sell to] customers whom we're going to [service] through our catalog, mail order and sales force. We're not leaving [those] customers-we just won't be servicing them in a retail store.

Monica Luechtefeld

The students have planned the entire show from conception, to deciding what theme it would be, to selecting the models, and selecting the stores that we will be featuring. They write the commentary, they are the commentators, and they are physically making the clothes.

Tricia Poythress

Wal-Mart deserves their high admiration level because they do what they say. They give America a place to buy at low prices in stores where employees seem happy to be there and willing to assist customers when questions are asked.

Britt Beemer

Advertisers are looking for new ways to get to the mass audience and see grocery stores as a big marketplace. The customers are in the stores, the wallets are in their pockets and the TV programming allows vendors to talk directly to them with their products in close proximity.

Ken Goldberg

We piloted it in four stores and it worked out extremely well. The rollout to the entire chain, however, did not go nearly as well as we expected.

Rachel Bolt

We really don't know if human consumption of that chemical is dangerous per se, so it's premature to say. We don't move on taking it out of the food stores yet. Further studies are necessary to identify the ultimate outcomes.

Andrew Olaharski

Why we still have incandescent bulbs in our grocery stores is beyond me.

Dale Marshall

The slowdown in housing will have an effect on other areas of the economy, such as sales of furniture, appliances and home improvement stores.

Chris Mccarty

We would never go to Greenwich Avenue, then we would have to change our concept and price like other stores.

Julia Portera

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

Sonja Tuitele

We certainly wouldn't want to call the police on our customers and send them to other stores.

Ted Walsh

We're in High Point, which is heralded as the furniture capital of the world. Even with all their stores, they're [Hickory Furniture Mart] not as big.

Jason Harris

More than just service, it's the respect, rapport, ambience that engages customers so that price becomes the last thing on their minds as they walk around stores.

Candace Corlett

We think it's serving as a gateway to brands we already carry in (Wild Oats) stores.

Sonja Tuitele

Through our digital online sales, the LSO can reach a different audience. We believe there are a lot of people, especially young ones who want to get into classical music but feel intimidated in retail stores (by their lack of knowledge).

Chas Jenkins

Friday and Saturday were not pleasant times for us. When you have to tell people who, out of no fault of their own, their stores are closing and their jobs may be eliminated, it is difficult for us.

Terry O'neil

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

Ritu Kumar

We are interested in importing more from India. Opening stores there is more complicated, primarily because of the regulation issues. Down the road we may be interested in building stores there. The most encouraging factor for us is the size of the market.

Bill Wertz

We're proud it was one of our stores and one of our customers who won. We have a higher concentration of stores in other areas of the country. And we're happy it was a regular shopper.

Greg Allen

People typically only buy wine in grocery stores when they already know they like it. The type they like really is based on the number of taste buds you have.

Darby Williams

It's enriching our downtown. It's attractive in the overall picture. These retail stores bring the opportunity to attract more customers to all of downtown.

Linda Mccarthy

Our stores have always been a place to relax with a cup of Starbucks coffee and a good book, and the new Borders locations will be a great addition to creating the 'third-place' experience.

Greg Meier

Not everyone who goes into those stores are bad people. In fact, the majority aren't. But pedophiles are known to frequent those areas.

Terry Parish

For the Super Bowl period, we're looking at that sometime in December to make sure that we've got the product ordered, delivered and in our stores when we need it.

Jeff Lowrance

All retail stores will showcase details from the local geographic area. They will create a comfort zone in a local market for a local consumer.

David Bedwell

Fashion week gets so cluttered that if you've never heard of a designer, why go to the show? So we put them together in one presentation. Stores are more competitive. Consumers are starting to go into stores and see that the clothes all look the same.

Mary Gehlhar

These are high-end items that consumers typically find at specialty stores and not necessarily at Wal-Mart, ... The idea is to take our base business and layer it with unexpected products.

John Fleming

In parts of the world, like Japan, you have to really hunt around to even find a CRT in stores. Research and development dollars are now pouring into flat panel display technology, not CRTs.

Rhoda Alexander

We supply restaurants, schools, grocery stores and other wholesalers.

Will White

We think the economics here will be attractive. Pro customers are the heaviest weekday users of convenience stores.

Frank Blake

The brands bring people into the stores and the price points make it very attractive for people to own a Toro.

Dave French

We have been assigned three soldiers so far. We basically show them where the (supermarkets) are, which are the main streets in the city, how to get one off and on Fort Bliss and the best places to eat. One of our soldiers needed to get a TV, so we took him to different appliance stores until he found one.

Susie Gray

I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work.

Philip Green

The end of the year is an especially important time for the music community, and an especially fortunate time for music fans, with a great slate of new releases in stores. We must do everything to protect the integrity of the marketplace.

Cary Sherman

We didn't factor in the labor savings at the stores, which was huge.

Steve Belardi

It's impossible to compete on price with the loss leaders at department stores or electronic stores. You'd be crazy to do that.

Geoff Mayfield

All these new stores bring people to downtown.

Patricia Rodriguez

It's blowing the doors off the stores. It's going to be one the biggest-selling weeks for PC gaming that we've seen.

Brian Lucas

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.

Chris Brathwaite

You, me - everybody else is going to see it. The general consumer is going to see it - in the grocery stores, everywhere. You are going to see prices increasing. Shipping costs have gone up, and they are going to pass it on to the consumer.

Tony Johnson

Here you've got a situation where there is an opportunity for so many stores, and it suits a wide array of customers.

Jennifer Black

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.

Mark Vance

We are excited about our partnering relationship with DSC Logistics and most importantly, excited to offer our drug wholesalers, chain drug stores, mass merchandisers and independent pharmacies the ability to capitalize from the benefits of this new relationship, ... Through the relationship with C200, DSC Logistics and Kramer Labs were able to forge a relationship that wil.

Gloria Rodriguez

Anytime you have a big box like Target, it generates traffic and improves the demographics for other stores to come and take advantage of.

Fred Dillingham

People have cravings for literature just as they do for bars of chocolate, fizzy drinks or all the other things you can now buy from machines. These vendors mean it's as if our stores were open 24 hours a day.

Xavier Chambon

Hotel ownership is an attractive investment for entrepreneurs, but those not versed in the lodging industry may not realize the opportunity. Owners of restaurants, auto dealerships, and convenience stores have the business acumen and financial capacity to own and operate hotels, and we can show them how to transfer and utilize their unique skill sets to hotel ownership.

Brian Parker

The toy industry, in cooperation with the CPSC, does a good job of getting items off the store shelves in the event of a recall. But you'll still find a lot of recalled items at thrift stores.

Ken Giles

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.

Bob Peters

Wal-Mart plans to open 20 stores in China this year.

Amy Wyatt

How does Isaac successfully live in both specialty department stores and discount stores? Why does Bergdorf Goodman welcome Isaac into its rarified space at the same time as the brand sits in the pet care aisle at Target?

Wendy Liebmann

They serve it everywhere here. We all love it. They have it at McDonald's and sell it at 7-Elevens and the ABC stores. We grew up with Spam.

Caleb Spencer

We asked consumers in focus groups, 'Would you rather return things to stores and have to pay sales tax?' and they chose no sales tax.

Jeanne Meyer

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.

Michael Polzin

We're redesigning the stores to make them more contemporary and more colorful for the people who purchase goods ... and [generate] more revenue for our job-training programs.

Brendan Hurley

It's clear that newspaper advertising is still an important vehicle for our stores.

Jim Sluzewski

What they've done is buy themselves some time. The challenge is, how long does it last? If you're still losing sales, those stores that are profitable today won't be profitable tomorrow.

Neil Stern

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.

Paula Begoun

People will not come here to teach or work in the stores, because they can't afford the rent. You could live in other places and drive a cab and have a decent life, but it's not that easy in Fort McMurray.

Bruce Taylor

Get a list of three or four different stores that you haven't been to.

Gigi Guerra

People are getting scammed and they don't know about it and the stores know about it and they're not telling anybody.

Bob Snyder

We are all shopping in the same stores, so if someone hoards the toilet paper, there's less for us.

Jason Alderman

We will devote additional resources and further enhance the merchandise offerings at the remaining Rockford area stores.

Bud Bergren

Nothing wrong with Ralph Lauren. We have that stuff in our stores. You just don't want to see the entire place go in that direction.

Wendy Hudson

It looks like all stores are having clearance specials, summer sales. It's very competitive out there. It's a very competitive market, and we think retailers are vying for consumers' dollars as the economy is slow and people probably aren't spending as much. So retailers are giving consumers incentive to come in and traffic their stores.

Stephanie Brown

It'll change things in Dallas quite a bit, because as I walk around in Frisco and the malls and stores everybody's excited about the stadium and the team. I'm looking forward to it.

Greg Vanney

We believe that one of the reasons that CC earnings are imploding is because Best Buy is opening up powerful stores in large metropolitan markets, particularly in New York. We believe capacity will get worse. Best Buy has a large amount of cash and they are ramping up their expansion to try to pre-empt CC's turnaround.

Peter Caruso

We have several empty stores, and I think there are several others that aren't doing well.

Patricia Ryan

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.

James Adamson

These stores are part of our strategy to take Build-A-Bear Workshop to wherever families go to have fun. We look forward to being a part of more ballparks and of enhancing that family fun.

Maxine Clark

I think $26 became less attractive given the extra risks. They're running their negotiations as well as they seem to be operating their stores, which is pretty darn poorly.

David Dietze

More of them (customers) come to the main store still but most people shop at both stores.

Michael Phillips

About half of our shoppers in our stores today are females, ... And they are in there doing the same thing that all of our male shoppers are looking for -- low prices, great assortment of products that they need in terms of repairing and fixing up their homes. Whether it's a male or female shopper, their need and desires and dreams are really the same.

Arthur Blank

Starbucks will continue with our expansion plans and open stores where our customers want and expect us to be.

Kelly Hand

We'll be the first northeast Sonic. There are plans to put stores further north, but for at least a year Bridgeville will be the furthest northern Sonic.

Bob Cutler

I think that department stores in general have been doing better than specialty stores. Each specialty store has its own problems in terms of fashion ... limited products.

Jeff Edelman

It's been a good location. We will keep our other two stores operational. It's business as usual for them.

Heather Taylor

It's true that retailing is going through a shakeout period and more companies are trying to attract the customer through technology by making it fun to shop, ... But if you're going to replace people with machine at stores, why shouldn't people just shop on the Internet then?

Harry Friedman

Unlike a lot of retailers, they are somewhat limited in what they can offer. I just don't think they are ever going to make much money on their retail stores.

Michael Schroeder

It absolutely does hook with inventory. We would get a data feed of all of the wines they have in those stores and we absolutely map to their assortment.

Darby Williams

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.

Howard Beth

As we have maintained all along, no company senior official had any direct knowledge that undocumented workers were working in our stores.

Marty Heires

In North America, we only plan on opening four to five stores a year, while other chains look to open that many in one metro area in a year.

Joseph Roth

The bottom line is traffic in and around the impacted stores didn't justify the investments required to make sure customers had a great experience.

Wendy Dominguez

It goes deep into the economy. A lot of people depend on the Ford plant, from the little lunch shops that are around the plant, to the hardware stores, to you name it.

Donald Goldberg

There's not any profitability there, ... Those two stores were probably not going to come back to profitability. In small business, you can't gain that business back.

James Garner

We're still growing in Mississippi. We have 37 stores in your state.

Carol Hively

We have had calls to ask if our stores could stay open later or open earlier for celebrities and we said 'Absolutely.' Ralph Lauren, Gucci ... they are all willing, of course.

Linda Mcintosh

I understand their frustration. We were encouraging them to move in based [on the availability of these stores], and one of the things they probably thought moving in was all that stuff will be there. But it will be there now.

Chris Paladino

I'm very optimistic about the success of the holiday season. Retailers in early 2006 will realize they have to make the same brand commitment online as in stores.

Jeff Lanctot

Not far from my front door are five liquor stores and five or more churches. Things would be almost perfect if we had some restaurants here and a decent grocery store.

Jose Ramirez

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.

Dick Adams

Apparently the new high-tech Star Wars toys will be in stores any day now. The toys can talk and are interactive, so they can be easily distinguished from Star Wars fans.

Conan O'brien

We're very efficient at picking because we're not wasting much motion. Once we go through the pick path, we're basically picking everything that's needed for those six stores. In the old world we had to do six walks up and down the aisle.

Steve Belardi

Consumers have spent the weekend with their family and they've been in the stores. They now have a holiday list going. And today is the first day that people are back at work in front of their computers.

Heather Dougherty

Unfortunately, the location, size and age of this facility limit our ability to service our stores in the most logistically effective way.

Marc Smith

During this highly promotional retail environment in the United States, our gross margins have significantly increased, reflecting the consistent application of our philosophy of a 365-day full price proposition in our retail stores.

Lew Frankfort

We are making stores to fit the community.

Pat Curran

These are also the people who want health and comfort establishments near their homes -- drugstores, grocery stores, nice gas stations, dry cleaners. These things are not yet available in the Downtown area.

Ray Rodriguez

We plan on achieving profitable growth in the European market by opening stores, growing same-store sales and improving margins through operational efficiencies and better buying power.

Don Meij

We try to go 50 percent below regular stores and 30 percent below Wal-Mart.

Pat Quillen

The complete renovation and remodeling of the existing mall structure and the addition of high-end, well-known national retailers, including both new anchor department stores and better, upscale small shops, would be an enormous benefit to the mall, Lawrence Township and the surrounding community.

Jonathan Epstein

[2. Buy local, local, local. Purchasing food and other items made locally means buying products that have used less gas to be taken to stores.] The major sources of emissions in this country are transportation and electricity production, ... If you're eating locally grown food, there's less transportation involved in taking that food to you.

Brendan Bell

Part of their strategy has to involve closure of some of those stores.

Robert Cihra

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.

Marty Heires

One of the key components of sustainability is having enough of the right products to sell. That starts with making room in our stores for products and customers.

Claire Babrowski

Costco has the most affluent membership of all the membership stores.

Jim Tutwiler

The reinvention process always brings with it the requirement to spend money for upgrading the stores and strengthening their reputations.

Bill Bishop

Look at the results of (Chico's) same-store sales. They keep posting incredible numbers year after year. Passport keeps growing and it gets people coming into stores.

Christine Chen

There's a lot of redundancy in these stores. If the idea of this merger is to make these department stores more similar to each other, that won't add value to consumers, ... Consumers want differentiation and variety in products. Price isn't their only consideration.

Barbara Kahn

We may open a couple of stores this year.

Charlie Kleman

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

Scott Hartman

Price, price, price. We're looking at value instead of price and trying to offer good value to a broader range of people coming into stores.

Gail Lavielle

With the additional pedestrian traffic we are projecting downtown and the additional retail stores, we want to guarantee safety.

Tom Leighton

It's a well-proven cookie-cutter formula. It works. The entry level is a bit lower than it is for something like McDonald's. There are very clear directions on how to operate a Subway franchise. At the same time, the people owning the stores tend to be very entrepreneurial in their focus.

David Upton

(It gives) a look at how many Starbucks there are versus how many local stores there are.

Xtine Hanson

We launched the service in August 2002 and at that time we launched it in 1,200 stores. Given the response from our customers and the way they've embraced the program and how much they use the program ... it's been very successful.

Domanick Davis

It becomes automatic for clerks to approach customers immediately. Some stores say salespeople should greet customers within 30 seconds.

Minjeong Kim

It has sent a wave of terror through the community. That the raids were going on at the flea markets and grocery stores. They've all been eyewitness accounts as to these particular raids happening.

Susana Almanza

Customers have been used to having two entrances in the front of the store, but now we'll have a whole new face and one center entrance. We're also completely changing the interior layout. The new floor plan puts our store in line with all of our other stores.

Chuck Wines

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.

David Sanderson

We will see to it that Thai people don't drink Nescafe coffee or buy goods at 7-Eleven convenience stores.

Parnthep Puurpongpan

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.

Harvey Seegers

We have some exciting new lines and reinvigorated stores. Customers are going where they know they can rely on traditional good service.

Andrew Murphy

The department stores did better than I expected to do. It was a decent performance in a tough environment for retail sales.

Robert Buchanan

We'll have product that can't be found in big box stores, and it will be displayed in a manner that you won't see anywhere else.

Chris Lynch

There is no question that overall sales amounts are going to rival the weekend before Christmas and a lot of stores are going to do better than that. You're getting people into the stores at a time when they don't normally shop, they don't normally spend money.

Jon B. Hurst

I'll play here. I got two stores to go to.

James Henderson

There are a lot of new residences geared to older people that are out in the hinterlands. They are not necessarily close to medical offices, grocery stores and all the places you need to go. We need to start thinking about how to retrofit our community so older people can get around.

Diann Shappell

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.

Daryl Boehringer

I think a lot of this was spurred by eBay and the performance of that stock. That stock has been so popular. Retailers feel it's something they easily can do. If you have retail stores and products you sell, you can also auction them off via the Internet.

Peony Kao

(Sharon) said the whole country stopped for two hours at noon when the racing starts, ... Everyone was watching everywhere ? in the cafes, the restaurants, stores and houses. Everyone was just watching TV and waiting for the gold.

Gal Fridman

In this day, stores come and go. But even though the name is gone, I'll always remember Wanamaker's.

Angie Carbone

When you want to save money for seniors, that may mean smaller profits for drug stores.

Mark Merritt

Department stores are struggling with declining market share and that's why we're likely to see future consolidation in this group.

Mark Mandel

Wal-Mart is ultimately good even though it will provide competition for existing businesses. But competition isn't always bad. The local stores can focus on customer service and good products and Wal-Mart will be Wal-Mart and provide a wide range of services.

Kelley Smith

What we're finding is that there are some smaller stores that go away when the big boxes move in, but for the most part, they are the marginal operations that would have gone away anyway.

Scott Wright

February was a successful month for clearance merchandise and many retailers are relieved to have winter gear out of their stores, ... Retailers appear pleased with their pricing strategies for spring and are encouraged that consumers are heading to the stores in larger numbers.

Tracy Mullin

It's usually over the course of a few years, but it doesn't take long and those stores just can't stay open.

Tom Pamperin

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.

Steve Schneider

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.

Wilbur Ross

We have two Marketplace stores up and running in Columbus. They are doing pretty good.

Jerry Vogt

We will distribute it broadly in outdoor-related stores. Here in the Rocky Mountains, that could mean in convenience stores. Whirling disease affects anyone who's in the water-it threatens their recreation.

John Duncan

It is nothing like a traditional supermarket. Our stores are designed to resemble a European open-air market.

Jo Natale

I wouldn't be surprised if we saw some better athletic and designer brands in the stores.

Matt Powell

The products that are moving out of the stores the fastest are those that are most expensive.

Giorgio Armani

We will add to it significantly to the degree stores will support it, We will have bath for sure.

Dr. Michael Bernstein

We built a modern, attractive store — and it drives traffic into the community. The Monroe store's business has been unbelievable, and it has been very good to our company.

Jimmy Flynt

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

Chris Ahearn

Stores need to freshen their appearance more often these days because consumers are getting bored quickly.

Karl Mckeever

I just don't want to create an ordinance that's going to be unfair to stores. That's my only concern, I don't want to create an unfair system.

Mike Harper

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

Gail Lavielle

In larger stores and areas, there is more anonymity from customers. We try to take away as much as that (anonymity) as we can.

Tim Sutton

We are doing our best to educate our stores as to the reason for the situation with the Pentium 4.

Jim Mcmanus

The hard-core health food stores wouldn't go for this because of the plastic.

Rod Moyer

There used to be a lot more of the mom-and-pop stores downtown. Now there are only a couple left. The downtown has really changed. People want to be able to park in front of the business they are going to; they don't want to park on the next block, especially our older customers.

Bob Williams

This agreement with Borders, a brand that resonates with book lovers everywhere, affords us the opportunity to showcase the Sony Reader directly to reading enthusiasts. Borders stores provide the premier locations for customers to see the Reader and experience all the advantages this revolutionary digital reading device has to offer.

Aaron Hawkins

Many stores sell the materials to construct a pond but lack the plants that can be placed in there, so I would like to have these for people to buy.

John Stubbings

Exclusivity and uniqueness are most critical to wealthy consumers. Having too many stores can take away from exclusivity.

Milton Pedraza

Corvallis has this no-growth policy. When (prospective tenants) look at where they're going to put their future stores, they want to put them where people want to go.

Craig Clark

Our impressive same store sales growth reinforces our plan to open additional stores in 2006.

Mark Craft

We don't have big chain stores. The biggest chain we have is CVS. Parking is at a premium in Hoboken.

Lenny Luizzi

Everyone all through the city, saying, 'I'm sorry,' up and down the streets, in the grocery stores, everywhere you go.

Ken Carter

We're acquiring a great brand, [and] introducing it into our stores will attract new shoppers...who will connect with our apparel departments better than they would have in the past.

Alan Lacy

Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a scourge of locusts. To department stores they're a big beautiful exaltation of larks. all lovely and loose and jingly.

Bernice Fitz gibbon

I can understand getting in the stores to get food and water and stuff.

Karl Hankton

The economic and competitive conditions we faced in Argentina were just too difficult to overcome, despite the efforts of our management team and a dedicated crew at the stores, ... We adjusted our pricing strategy and increased customer service programs. However, it is clear there are not sufficient prospects for operational or financial improvement on the horizon.

Jack Schuessler

My goal when I came to the company as president was to grow the business to 15 stores. This helps us realize that goal.

David Majeski

They recalled all of our CDs. The week of Thanksgiving, all through November and December, there was no product in the stores.

Chris Botti

There is, in fact, no entity in the known universe that stores and processes information more efficiently than the DNA molecule. Every DNA has 3 billion individual characteristics.

Discovery Institute

We don't want to sell shoes that you can find at department stores. We're trying to keep it very unique.

Jessica Martin

Even my record company, who earned millions of dollars with me, abandoned me. They took my records out of the stores. The gay community continued singing my songs. The transvestites continued imitating me. Against all odds, I love them. . . . They support me and take care of me.

Gloria Trevi

A dollar that is spent on interest can't be spent on fixing the stores. They have to fix the business.

John Chamberlain

We just read it in the paper this week. It's kind of amazing. Actually we were just talking; we're going to miss it. It's probably one of our favorite stores.

Rebecca Adams

Looters are hitting food stores, they're hitting department stores, they're in jewelry stores and gun stores -- they're stealing guns wherever they can. It's not just to survive, they're taking goods for personal gain.

Frank Coates

We are prepared for at least 250 dogs and cats. Right now we have three to four veterinarians on staff. All the food has been donated from local grocery stores, pet stores, Second Harvest in Milwaukee.

Jan Johnson

The... acquisition of the Birthdays chain of stores is compounding what are without doubt the most challenging trading conditions the group has seen in years.

Keith Bowman