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...more potential than risk." One of Nabi's favorites is Home Depot, whose profits have been soaring and should grow an additional 14% this year. Yet the company's shares sit 39% below their level of six years ago. Other depressed blue chips include Intel, Dell, J.P. Morgan, Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, Verizon, Citigroup...
...also to a $100 billion chunk of the retail economy. Everyone from fashion designers to cosmetics companies to small-town malls is praying that Lundgren's strategy works. Department stores have struggled for years: they've cut service, cut prices, cut inventory and still lost customers to cheaper (Wal-Mart) or more stylish (Kohl's, Target) discounters and to specialty stores (Nordstrom) with top-end service. Millions of Americans, especially in the nation's midsection, will soon have their first chance to shop at Macy's. The company now has to give them a reason...
Macy's first advantage is size. "It's now got the potential to be a Godzilla," says David Wolfe, a fashion retail consultant for the Doneger Group in New York City. Like Wal-Mart in the discount world, Macy's will wield a big and powerful roar that gives it leverage to get the best prices and exclusive products from vendors. But the recent history of retail suggests that size alone may not work. The most successful retailers have found their footing by focusing on one slice of the market. Luxury purveyors like Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom and Bloomingdale...
...have stepped forward to organize a response to Harvard Right to Life’s recent poster campaign or the graphic anti-abortion pamphlets that bombarded many student mailboxes earlier this fall. And no student groups promoted or even drew attention to a recent Planned Parenthood rally at the Wal-Mart in Quincy, Mass., which protested the company’s imprudent “business” decision...
After all, if pro-choice activists don’t build a bigger tent, millions of Americans might find their own moral tent at Wal-Mart instead...