The typical industry approach is [retailers] to treat vendors like the enemy... If vendors can't make a profit then they don't have money to invest in research and development, which in turn means that the products they bring to the market will be le...
No one in my family had a retail or marketing background. They were professionals. They didn't understand just what I was doing by going into retailing. After I started, though, it got into my blood. I knew this was what I wanted.
I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazin...
The ventures that keep things light and fun, easy to understand, that have a compelling story, a sexy retail product, will have an easier time getting people to rally around them and contribute. A start-up doing something that's difficult to communic...
A lot of times, I can put a product together with a distributor when I go into my Rolodex for distributors. I can then put it together with a face, such as an artist. And then I can go into my databank of retailers and people that I've been working w...
I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.
Don't deal bitterly with the enemy you see. Deal with the greater enemy that sent your enemy to you. If you focus on dealing with the "retailer", remember that the "producer" can employ more "retailers" and what that means is that your life business ...
Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing.
Arkansas is a state where politics is retail.
I'm not from a retail background, but I am a shopper.
The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.
I spend my time being a retailer, not an economist.
Power is winning the battle over who owns the customer: the brand or the retailer.
I wanted to create a new way of looking at retail.
On the whole, and this comment can get me in a lot of trouble, I find that retailers in the comic book business are not business people. They're fans who've gotten themselves shops.
Retailing has gone from an information-scarce to an information-rich environment.
The starting point for ‘discounts’ may be the manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP), an arbitrarily high price that no one will ever pay. By crossing out the high MSRP, retailers are handing shoppers a psychological victory that will mak...
Although social media is a relatively new form of communication, it has become the primary way retailers and customers are interfacing.
My first job was in retail at the age of 14, and I have worked in the industry ever since.
I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
I'd never worked in fashion or retail. I just needed an undergarment that didn't exist.
