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If any PC manufacturer has made money selling PCs retail in the last 10 years, I'd like to know who they are.
The investment we're all looking for is actually saving labor... Look at what the internet is doing to retail.
No wonder they call shopping 'retail therapy,' as any girl will tell you how it just takes away all the stress.
In the future, the best retail sites will know you much better and show you things that are much more relevant.
The power of digital distribution over physical retail outlets is you have a chance to create a global audience.
I knew that if I could create a quality product and find the proper retail outlets, it would be a great company.
In the world there is a debate over inequity, and sometimes we get caught up in that, and retail does in general.
I've never worked in a retail store, but I did sell shoes at Gimme Shoes in San Francisco, a job I was fired from.
I was lucky enough to find my passion early - in retail - and I have done well but, most importantly, loved doing it.
Steve Jobs once asked me for some advice about retail, but I said, 'I am not sure at all we are in the same business.'
If you think about a business where uncertainty is an anathema, it's around consumer spending, and it's around retail.
Jeff Bezos is opening a retail store and owns a newspaper. Turns out everything we thought about the Internet is wrong.
People always say to me, 'You've really strived to redefine retail.' But the reality is, I wanted to redefine magazines.
People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one?'
More and more people are opening online stores and online retail businesses. This market is expanding very, very quickly.
My first job was at a local bakery, and when I graduated from high school, I was promoted from retail sales to cake decorator.
You can't take up all the music bins at a CD retail outlet with Spice Girls CDs and leave nothing for the Joan Jett catalogue.
Retail is undergoing a massive change, and there is a chance for new leaders to emerge and older brands to reinvent themselves.
At HSN, entertainment has quickly become a core part of who we are and is a key differentiator from others in the retail landscape.
I realized I was a gamer when I didn't sleep three consecutive nights playing EverQuest, which was a popular MMORPG sold at retail.
My mom used to work for Coach and Louis Vuitton, in retail. So, I've always been around it. I've always had that connection. Always.
My businesses are all related - retail, shopping centers, banking, real estate, and tourism development. Together they create synergy.
Moving from corporate banking to retail banking to international banking to supervisory roles has meant completely reinventing myself.
I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.
The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.
You walk into a retail store, whatever it is, and if there's a sense of entertainment and excitement and electricity, you wanna be there.
All of the marketplaces like Prosper, LendingClub, etc., as they get larger, they flip from being retail capital to institutional capital.
Amazon has done something for all of retail, which is resetting the customer expectations about how quickly and easily you can get things.
I have always been fascinated by fashion. I never had any interest in waiting tables or bar-tending, so retail was sort of my best option.
I have a feeling that there is a gap in the food retail market - a niche below some of the current budget operators such as Aldi and Lidl.
I'm so obsessed with Apple, and the chance to work with the people who really created Apple retail is the retail opportunity of a lifetime.
Successful strategic vision lay in the fact that we visualized the retail business to be much bigger, ahead of what others thought it to be.
High-end boutiques aren't putting small staple stores out of business. What's putting small staple stores out of business is formula retail.
would be better served by continuing to hold an ownership position in a pure-play sporting goods retailer rather than a retail conglomerate.
I don't believe in flagship retail, because the definition of flagship retail is that it's a marketing expense, and it's going to lose money.
My protagonists have problems that a new pair of shoes won't solve. Retail therapy is not a bad thing, but it's not going to fix their lives.
By selling directly to customers, real women, the brand is able to avoid significant retail mark-ups that typically exist in high end fashion.
If you're a retail investor, you have set aside some of your hard-earned money for investment or to create a nest egg, for your kids or family.
Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don't know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning.
When you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you're not just bringing the products, but you're also harming local manufacturers.
I always loved retail. I love the ideas behind it. I think small-business retail is one of the areas where capitalism works so wonderfully well.
I always say, when I play the first few notes and people scream... if you're tired of that, you should try retail. What else are you looking for?
A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.
In the hyper-exploitative sector of retail and hospitality, workers are made to feel worthless - undeserving of a proper wage and genuine security.
Retail businesses have narrow margins. If you cut off a flow of young consumers, it's only a matter of time before the businesses struggle and fail.
People in retail banks are not smart. They have a business model that's quite difficult to not make money out of - but still they somehow manage it.
I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.
I'm paranoid about shopping. I get irritable. I find it tedious and taxing. People say shopping is retail therapy, but I need therapy after shopping.
Let there be no mistake: John W. Nordstrom was no retail expert. But throughout his life, he did what he had to do - hopefully we all have that in us.
I've worked everywhere. I worked in a warehouse packing surf supplies, a restaurant washing dishes, in retail, and I was a 'sandwich artist' at Subway.