“The ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing - I think that should really be considered. We have this industry in which we cut down trees to make the paper that we then use enormous amounts of electricity to turn into books that weigh a great deal and are then shipped enormous distances to point-of-sale retail.” ThinkingShouldBookUseTurnsDealsCuttingTreeIndustryAmountPaperImpactDistanceMarketingEnormousTraditionalElectricityEcologicalRetail Author:William Gibson
“Christmas was on a Sunday in 2005, which had a greater than expected negative impact on retail and classified advertising during the last weekend of our fiscal year. In addition, our California papers had held up well in automotive advertising, but the industry-wide decline in this category reached them in the fourth quarter as well.” YearsWellsLastsGreaterIndustryPaperNegativeImpactWideExpectedAdvertisingCaliforniaSundayCategoriesQuartersWeekendDeclineFourthPapersRetailFourth Quarter Author:Gary Pruitt
“Were the only major company in the U.S. that is solely in the professional beauty industry. We promised hairdressers when we started that we would stay with them. If I went retail tomorrow then we would be four times our size overnight, but Im going to be the one guy who kept his word.” IfsWould BeGuyCompanyFourIndustryTomorrowMajorsSizeRetailHairdresserBeauty Industry Author:John Paul DeJoria
“The retail industry has its own headache: it loses $16 billion a year to customers who buy clothes, wear them with the tags tucked in, and return these secondhand clothes for a full refund.” YearsLosesIndustryReturnClothesCustomersBillionsHeadacheTagRetailRefunds Author:Dan Ariely
“No throne exists that has a right to exist, and no symbol of it, flying from any flagstaff, is righteously entitled to wear any device but the skull and crossbones of that kindred industry which differs from royalty only businesswise-merely as retail differs from wholesale.” IndustryFlyingSymbolsDevicesEntitledThronesRoyaltySkullsRetailKindredWholesale Book:The American Claimant Source: The American Claimant
“Gambling drains the economy by taking money away from grocery stores and retail businesses and putting it in the hands of an industry that produces no product” HandsEconomyProduceProductsIndustryStoresGamblingGroceriesDrainsGrocery StoresRetailRetail Business Author:John Warren Kindt