Best Retailers Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Power is winning the battle over who owns the customer: the brand or the retailer.”

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“would be better served by continuing to hold an ownership position in a pure-play sporting goods retailer rather than a retail conglomerate.”

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Author:Jack Smith

“Consumers could be in for an even sweeter deal, either getting discounts from retailers for using the PIN debit cards or being rewarded by card network by winning money back for using the signature debit cards.”

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Author:David Robertson

“But I fail to see how that (not buying gifts) would bring back the essence of Christmas. And I don't think it would affect retailers. Besides, that's part of the joy of Christmas - to give someone a gift to show your appreciation for them.”

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Author:Mathew Staver

“Starting your own business and thinking about how you can grow something and fulfill both expectations and needs of your retailers and still stay exciting for the runway, you sort of become this left brain-right brain person pretty quickly.”

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Author:Joseph Altuzarra

“Self-checkout is negative because more and more retailers are losing the personal touch. People want to do business where people know their name and communicate with them. With a world full of email and more self-service we will begin to start seeking out the basics from retailers who create emotion. There is not emotion out of self-service and most people buy out of emotion.”

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Author:Debbie Allen

“By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population density was too thin to support major backlist retailers.”

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Author:Jason Epstein

“The reader is not the customer. The retailer is the customer. So I try to have as much interaction with the retailers as possible because those are my customers.”

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Author:Kelly Sue DeConnick

“high fashion has little to do with what women wear and a lot to do with what retailers mark down later.”

Littles Fashion Mark Retailers High Fashion

Book:Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

Source: Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

“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.”

People Want Home Bits Business Style Commitment British Stores More Money Retailers

Author:Philip Green

“Just as a salesperson is never extreme or original or overdressed, so the TV retailers never do anything to distract their audiences from the real product, the commercial.”

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Book:Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television

Source: Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television

“In changing times, we should all lend our support to the independent retailers. Without independent retailers, many of the biggest names in music would still be undiscovered. They break new artists and movements. We all know the industry is changing, but we can't forget where we came from.”

Knows Should Stills Artist Names Forget Break Support Movement Industry Independent Retailers New Artists Where We Came

Author:Gorilla Zoe

“Right now, we continue to see demand at very strong levels. It's tough to find a Wii now. If we hit 100 stores in the area, we would find Wiis in only 20 percent of them today. That tremendous strength we had in December really wiped the pipeline clean. Our pipeline, the retailer pipeline. And so with that kind of demand, it doesn't suggest the need for any pricing actions.”

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Author:Cammie Dunaway

“Retailers should not be filling their minds with all the things that are wrong, with how the economy is going, or with trying to get someplace in the business world. They should enjoy being in this moment and in this day and serving the people who come in.”

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Author:Wayne Dyer

“As a retailer, I would ask the customer, "What is it you want in life?" Whatever answer they give, I would help them to say the correct answer, or the most effective answer, for anyone - feeling good.”

Want Giving Helping Feelings Asks Answers Customers Feel Good Retailers

Author:Wayne Dyer

“Managing the other fellow's business is a fascinating game. Trade unionists all over the country have pronounced ideas for the reform of Wall Street banks; and Wall Street bankers are not far behind in giving plans for the tremendous improvement of trade union policies. Wholesalers have schemes for improving the retailer; the retailer knows just what is wrong in the conduct of wholesale business-and we might go through a long list.... Yet for some reason the classes that ought to be helped keep on stubbornly clinging to their own method of running their affairs.”

“My relationship with brick-and-mortar shopping is, in general, unpleasant. I can't remember a time in my life when I could go to a physical store and find a variety of things in my size that excited me and fit my personal style. As a plus-size shopper at a typical mall, you're limited to at most five stores out of maybe 50 clothing retailers. That leaves us with very few options and, for people on a tight budget, pretty much no chance of comparison shopping. You take what you can get.”

“My role as the chair of the fashion department at Parsons put me face to face with all the big designers, retailers, and editors. Since I was moving in these new circles regularly, I realized I needed to do something about my own personal style. It was really Diane von Furstenberg who gave me the nudge.”

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Author:Tim Gunn

“Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.”

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Book:British Theatre: Bonduca

Source: British Theatre: Bonduca

“The scientific community, public health officials, and others have raised serious doubt about the steps taken to ensure the safety and efficacy of the herbal dietary supplements taken daily by millions of Americans, as part of a broader investigation, NYAG is reviewing the sufficiency of the measures manufacturers and retailers are taking to independently assess the validity of their representations and advertising in connection with the sale of herbal supplements.”

“When I returned as CEO in 2008, Starbucks had forgotten that meaningful innovations balance an organization's heritage with modern-day relevance and market differentiation, so we had to reorient. In one brainstorming session, we visited and observed great retailers, then asked ourselves, 'If Starbucks did not exist, what type of coffee experience would we create?”

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Author:Howard Schultz

“Credit cards have been extremely profitable to banks. They're profitable not from the fees they collect from the retailers that use the credit cards, that pays the bills, but the real profits come from the interest payments and the charges to users that are unexpected.”

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Author:Richard Thaler

“I have no interest in being the biggest, the most profitable or the largest retailer. I just want The Body Shop to be the best, most breathlessly exciting company - and one that changes the way business is carried out.”

Way Want Body Interest Company Exciting Being The Best Shops Profitable Retailers

Author:Anita Roddick

“It's my job to know what's available from every retailer, catalog, website, antiques mall, and craftsperson. A good designer or decorator has to have an almost encyclopedic knowledge.”

Knows Jobs Available Designer Website Malls Antiques Good Design Retailers Decorators

Author:Nate Berkus

“The Internet is the easiest thing to get into. To be an Internet retailer, you just get that URL.”

Internet Retailers

Author:Bill Gates

“The 'Main Street' retailers ... see customers come to the store to locate items ... only to leave and order the items over the Internet just to escape the sales tax.”

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Author:John McCain

“In my world [of fashion] there's more things that kind of affect it. There's the retailers we do business with, our own stores, my merchandising team... Everybody has opinions, and so you definitely have to filter through a lot.”

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Author:Paul Weller

“Besides creating more compulsive gamblers, money spent on lotteries isn't spent on other goods such as clothing or computers, which would trickle through to retailers, manufacturers and other parts of the economy”

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Author:John Warren Kindt

“I've read about all the sales today. If you're an auto dealer, you're feeling it. If you're a furniture retailer like we are, you're feeling it. If you're a jewelry retailer, you're feeling it. I know some of these businesses because we're in them. Yeah, it's being felt, but it will be felt big time more if we don't do something about it, what's going on.”

Ifs Knows Feelings Bigs Today Felt Yeah Furniture Jewelry Dealer Retailers

Author:Warren Buffett

“I asked one retailer, I said, "Let me ask you, are you going to raise prices next year?" They looked at me and said, "Not only are we not going to raise prices, we're going to have to lower prices, increase the quality of the goods, and turn the inventory quicker."”

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Author:Ken Moelis

“If the Health Impact Fund were to be instituted, a single company would be in charge of a medical product all the way from its conception to the health improvements realized by actual patients. The company would be paid for health impact, and it would have to arrange the entire pipeline in between - all the steps of invention, of clinical testing, of getting marketing approval in many different countries, of wholesalers and retailers and prescriptions and so on - in a holistically optimal way.”

“You don't need money to look fabulous. There are so many awesome new designers, so many designers doing collections for mass retailers.”

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Author:Stacy London

“Real estate is the key cost of physical retailers. That's why there's the old saw: location, location, location.”

Real Saws Keys Cost Estates Location Retailers

Author:Jeff Bezos

“It was February sixth: eight days until Valentine's Day. I was dateless, as usual, deep in the vice grip of unrequited love. It was bad enough not having a boyfriend for New Year's Eve. Now I had to cope with Valentine datelessness, feeling consummate social pressure from every retailer in America who stuck hearts and cupids in their windows by January second to rub it in.”

“We economists don't know much, but we do know how to create a shortage. If you want to create a shortage of tomatoes, for example, just pass a law that retailers can't sell tomatoes for more than two cents per pound. Instantly you'll have a tomato shortage. It's the same with oil or gas.”

Ifs Knows Want Two Law Know How Example Sells Oil Gas Pounds Cents Economist Shortage Tomatoes Retailers Two Cents

Author:Milton Friedman

“The only leverage the manufacturer can apply to the retailer is his relationship with the consumer. And the main element in profit growth is going to have to lie in making his brand more valuable to the retailer, through its being more valuable to the consumer. And that means his brand must be unique, it must have no adequate direct substitutes - because it is in this, after all, that value lies.”

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Author:Stephen King

“Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I'm saying it's already been done because I lived it.”

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Author:Gary Vaynerchuk

“Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry.”

Groups Media Communication Industry Truth Is News Mass Gossip Peers Mass Media Retailers Peer Group

Author:David Riesman

“We know how to punish retailers and manufacturers that don't provide quality and value. But we're lousy at fighting effectively for what we really need - reliable insurance policies; affordable health care; safe, healthy food.”

Knows Needs Care Values Fighting Quality Know How Democracy Policy Healthy Safe Health Care Affordable Healthy Food Retailers Insurance Policy Affordable Health Care

Author:Shoshana Zuboff

“I work like a retailer. I sell my services, take my money and keep it in the bank.”

Sells Retailers

Author:Shahrukh Khan

“When people talk about successful retailers and those that are not so successful, the customer determines at the end of the day who is successful and for what reason.”

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Author:Gerry Harvey

“Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season.”

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Author:Evan Davis

“Halloween this year falls on a Friday. That should be helpful for retailers because the party carries into the weekend.”

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Author:Richard Hastings

“Charging everyone the same thing and treating everyone the same way, as retailers do today, is 'Six Sigma' thinking which is great for producing widgets on a production line, but it makes no sense in a world where customers are inherently different.”

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Author:Peter Fader

“Retailers are treating everyone the same way who walks in their stores and this doesn't make sense in the world we live in where all customers are not equal.”

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Author:Peter Fader

“Since the Kingstonfirst BID started in January 2005, retailers have enjoyed three years of impressive sales growth, which has taken many of us to the top of our peer group. The BID period has also seen Kingston rise to 12th place according to Experian, and 13th place according to the Javelin Venuescore, in their respective retail super leagues of UK town and city centres. I am confident the platform that our BID provides will allow us to continue to maintain Kingston as the place that people love to shop and visit.”

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Author:David Barford

“In just 200 tweets we can assess and identify 52 different personality traits of a customer. We ran an analysis over 500,000 people and we really nailed this. Think of providing this powerful insight to a retailer. We can see what they value, not just what they are buying. We have found a 40-45% increase in sales when you recommend upsales based on values instead of past buying behavior.”

“It's a great opportunity to lower costs without sacrificing quality. If a retailer is not leveraging this capability, they are certainly missing something.”

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Author:Marc Chandler

“My Eighth District, like others, counts on these family businesses and their teams working hard to support their families and aid their communities. As retailers, these teams often bring different or unique products to the marketplace.”

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Author:Melissa Bean

“It's ironic that retailers and restaurants live or die on customer service, yet their employees have some of the lowest pay and worst benefits of any industry. That's one reason so many retail experiences are mediocre for the public.”

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Author:Howard Schultz

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