Word: stores
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...Kennedy has been diagnosed with a brain tumor [June 2]. Fortunately, as a member of Congress, he will receive the best medical care, without regard to cost. For millions of working Americans, this diagnosis would mean liquidation of life savings, bake sales and coin jars at the local convenience store. Why can't Congress create a comprehensive health-care plan that treats us taxpayers as generously as they treat themselves? David Stockman, Billings, Mont...
...will probably start with a few stores in England and see how that goes, but the intent would be to take advantage of all the change going on and put in a new store structure that connects these capabilities together...
...spent the '70s in this little three-person store in West St. Paul [Best Buy was then called Sound of Music.] We had seven stores. We were losing a lot of money because our strategy wasn't appropriate anymore and the company was having trouble paying its bills. The founder pulls into the store I was managing and I was sure he was coming in to fire me. I had hair then; long hair. Not a lot up top, but I still had long hair. I really looked bad. He walks into the store and asks me to come outside...
...this is being in the right place at the right time and then knowing how to seize [the moment]. I am the least likely person to know how. It was completely out of character. I had been in the store for seven years so I had watched a lot of people do things and I always thought about what I would do if I had been in their shoes, but I never really thought I would get the chance. Something in me caused me to seize the moment. I am very lucky that happened. It's more likely that...
...customer the better your ability to see what the real needs of the business are. So how do you collapse the distance between the person that can see the customer's needs and the person at the decision-making level? A person in a blue shirt in a store probably has the best single insight as to what your needs are. How do we as a company follow his leadership, not mine? I've been around for 35 years. I could take you through anything we do today that we take for granted and all of it came from some...