I like loud music. I like music that fills my ears. I’m just going to pull out my iPod and see what we got here. We’re always interested in new bands because we have a retail store in northern California. I think it’s got to be happy.
Know how to effectively voice a complaint or make a claim at a retail store.
The reality is that front-line workers like restaurant servers, bus drivers and retail store clerks – whose jobs require person-to-person interactions – do not have the luxury of being able to ‘work from home.’
The power of digital distribution over physical retail outlets is you have a chance to create a global audience.
I am for a transactional tax at the point of purchase for both online and physical retail.
I’m more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It’s not a retail experience. It’s an existential one.
Rising incomes and positive demographics will provide opportunities for retail financial services in India.
People in retail banks are not smart. They have a business model that’s quite difficult to not make money out of – but still they somehow manage it.
At some point, all comics have to go out and be retail salesmen doing door-to-door. And this idea of somebody who totally knows their craft having to get up for free in front of a crowd to work out some stuff they’re thinking in their head, still, after as much success as you can get, is really interesting.
You can compare the retail business to basketball. You have to have a plan, you have to hustle, you have to rely on each other, and there’s a scoreboard on the wall.
Moving from corporate banking to retail banking to international banking to supervisory roles has meant completely reinventing myself.
This is America. We pick our leaders through democratic politics – ballot boxes, campaign stops, and good old-fashioned retail electioneering. It’s a system that doesn’t work without thousands of volunteers and ordinary supporters getting out in public and making the case for their preferred candidates.
My father’s whole life was work. He had a retail store in Ossining, New York, and I mean, he was down there at 6:15 every morning. The store didn’t open until 9, but he hadda be down there. That’s all he knew.
I couldn’t take that whole retail thing of being polite to people that are not being polite to you, and showing respect to people when they’ve got no respect for you. Retail in general is something I just can’t do, unless it’s my own shop.
Aggression at a time when the economy was growing at substantial rates and the retail lending as an industry was growing at a substantial rate was an appropriate aggression. Caution at a time when the economic environment is so uncertain is an appropriate caution.
Steve Jobs once asked me for some advice about retail, but I said, ‘I am not sure at all we are in the same business.’
Product downsizing in the face of inflation in order to maintain retail price points has long been used by food companies, notably manufacturers of candy.
Let there be no mistake: John W. Nordstrom was no retail expert. But throughout his life, he did what he had to do – hopefully we all have that in us.
I worked in retail for a bit and then I busked for two years. As soon as I started, I thought, ‘I’ll do busking until I’m 50 because this is the best job in the world.’
When you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you’re not just bringing the products, but you’re also harming local manufacturers.
I support both a Fair Tax and a Flat Tax plan that would dramatically streamline the tax system. A Fair Tax would replace all federal taxes on personal and corporate income with a single national tax on retail sales, while a Flat Tax would apply the same tax rate to all income with few if any deductions or exemptions.
We’re a boring retail and commercial bank.
Despite significant challenges within the retail sector in the UK and beyond, which have resulted in many retailers failing, Sports Direct has continued to perform well and exceed market expectations.
I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don’t necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.
‘Personalization’ is a popular word in retail, and people often misuse it to describe simple marketing tactics, like segmenting emails or using big data to identify the likely gender of a visitor to their websites.
For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.
I worked a variety of jobs in retail and at coffee shops all through high school. And, though I was surrounded by people who cared about me, part of me ached with every accomplishment, because my parents weren’t there to share my joy.
Working Holiday’ goes out to those earning their pay and a half: from retail employees at the mall and the kids selling popcorn at the movies, to the waiters at Chinese restaurants!
We also never undercut representatives’ prices. A representative will always be able to sell the discounts in our core business, which are not offered at retail. So it’s never more advantageous to buy there.
McDonald’s has been extraordinary at site selection; it was a pioneer in studying the best places for retail locations. One of the things it did is study very carefully where sprawl was headed.
I think Amazon is the greatest start-up and the greatest company in the world. The way they are using new technologies is not just disrupting retail, it’s getting ready to disrupt everything.
Calcutta is a very culturally-forward city. People encourage art, music, literature and I just feel like that’s a city that looks for experiences over just retail.
Retail businesses have narrow margins. If you cut off a flow of young consumers, it’s only a matter of time before the businesses struggle and fail.
I was lucky enough to find my passion early – in retail – and I have done well but, most importantly, loved doing it.
Some people see Black Friday as a much-needed break for their wallet. I see it as retail outlets showing the customers the full weight of their contempt. The frenzy to buy cheap crap from China, the human downgrade of people fighting with each other over items they can probably live without, to me, is an insult.
In the traditional modernist planning that created the suburbs, you put residential buildings in suburban neighborhoods, office spaces into brain parks and retail in shopping malls. But you fail to exploit the possibility of symbiosis or synthesis that way.
We got to know the competition very well. In the ’50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets.
My mom used to work for Coach and Louis Vuitton, in retail. So, I’ve always been around it. I’ve always had that connection. Always.
Although the number of manufacturing jobs in the United States has stagnated, dropping 12 percent from a high in the early 1980s, the number of retail jobs has risen 43 percent.
I’m in the retail business, not the circus business.
We’ve built our own technology platform in-house, which operates our website and powers our retail stores.
If you are a single product company, then you are a contract company. But if you enter the retail market, then you have to be a multiple product company.
I wasn’t going to get such a nice car – I was going to get a cute little hybrid or something, keep the trees happy – but then my grandfather died, and it was all: retail therapy!
I promise you that there are a lot of people involved in various kinds of retail activities who think they have a crucial role in the economy, and they’re right.
The majority of people are perfectly capable of interacting with retail staff without spitting on them or whipping their hides like dawdling cattle, but Planet Earth still harbours more than its fair share of disappointments.
You walk into a retail store, whatever it is, and if there’s a sense of entertainment and excitement and electricity, you wanna be there.
Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We’ve got all kinds of products.
In the racialized space of capitalist gentrification, police are not only arbiters of the peace, they are the muscle of retail racism: You can only be in this space if you transcend your blackness by showing us some green dollars. Even then, there is no guarantee that green will transcend your black skin.
In the early 2000s, we were finding at Amazon that software development projects were taking us longer than we thought they should. We decided to build a set of infrastructure services to allow our retail business to move more quickly.
My dad moved to Britain from Bangladesh in the 1960s to work as an actuary for Prudential. However, after seeing an empty retail space in Soho, he decided to open an Asian restaurant instead, despite not having any business experience.
Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It’s done one voter at a time.
The idea of going somewhere where the salesperson is able to personalize the retail experience for you doesn’t work anymore. Stitch Fix is an opportunity to provide a service for people who are looking for more than just buying the cheapest thing with one-day shipping.
