Word: retailing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...been getting a lot of e-mails about it. It’s all-natural male enhancement. It’s been the greatest change...in my life. Shit is way bigger now. I’ve grown comfortable taking it out in most situations and retail environments, which before I was a little timid about. D.A.: I don’t know, I mean we live on a bus now, which is a fairly extreme lifestyle switch. But other than that I mean, we live in our mom’s houses. In the cities we grew...
...fact, the First Lady has been a one-woman stimulus package for the suffering fashion retail industry. Designers, store buyers, shoppers and stock investors are all watching her every move. And she has been in the White House barely 100 days. "She's the first thing my clients want to talk about," says Jennifer Black, president of Jennifer Black & Associates, a retail equity research firm. "She's a huge deal. And I don't think this is a short-term thing. Sometimes you get a flash in the pan, but that's not going to be the case with Michelle...
...Although the First Lady has sparked retail sales for her chosen brands, it's too early to anoint her a savior. "Michelle Obama hasn't done enough to significantly change the financial performance of J. Crew and Talbots," says Betty Chen, retail analyst at Wedbush Morgan Securities. J. Crew's same-store sales fell 13% in the fourth quarter of 2008. The company lost $13.5 million, compared with a $25 million profit in the fourth quarter of 2007. Talbots has updated its merchandise to fit its repositioning as a younger company. According to Chen, however, the company is too indebted...
...industrial, financial, and retail jobs destroyed over the last three quarters cannot be recouped in the dozen quarters that lie immediately ahead, if Phelps view, which is a remarkably dark vision of America's future, is right. This desperate image of the national economic life assumes that the innovative power of American business cannot build another huge sector the way that it did in the 1970s with the rise of the great technology companies like Microsoft (MSFT), Intel (INTC), and Cisco (CSCO), and twenty years later Google (GOOG) and the second reincarnation of Apple (AAPL), which was built on nothing...
...options," Ashby tells me, as she pores over tarot cards in her Selfridges perch. With so many people having decisions made for them by macroeconomic forces, it's hard to disagree - and it's comforting to be confirmed in a course of nonaction. Now that's what I call retail therapy...