It's my job to know what's available from every retailer, catalog, website, antiques mall, and craftsperson. A good designer or decorator has… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
My role as the chair of the fashion department at Parsons put me face to face with all the big designers, retailers,… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
“The organizational and technology challenges are significant, and we have touched on only a few of them here. But we’ve seen big… — McKinsey Chief Marketing & Sales Officer Forum Copy Share Image
When I first started at HSN, I knew that retailers would have to be poised to take advantage of technology and the… — Mindy Grossman Copy Share Image
Charging everyone the same thing and treating everyone the same way, as retailers do today, is 'Six Sigma' thinking which is great… — Peter Fader Copy Share Image
“inventory-management systems, such as retailers, tend to be the developers of new approaches to inventory management. In contrast, manufacturers of inventory-management systems… — Eric von Hippel Copy Share Image
All these retailers these days are under pressure. Why? It's because... for the last 30 years, value equaled price. But now, value… — Chieh Huang Copy Share Image
More and more department stores are acting as the shop window for a range of retailers now, using space more efficiently to… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
When I returned as CEO in 2008, Starbucks had forgotten that meaningful innovations balance an organization's heritage with modern-day relevance and market… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
Managing the other fellow's business is a fascinating game. Trade unionists all over the country have pronounced ideas for the reform of… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
My relationship with brick-and-mortar shopping is, in general, unpleasant. I can't remember a time in my life when I could go to… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
“No matter how large and enlightened retailers become, they remain generalists, and there are things that are difficult for them to do… — Greg Thain Copy Share Image
In just 200 tweets we can assess and identify 52 different personality traits of a customer. We ran an analysis over 500,000… — Sandy Carter Copy Share Image
“Smaller players, who recognise they cannot call themselves category captains, have to take a different approach. Some of them aim to have… — Greg Thain Copy Share Image
Credit cards have been extremely profitable to banks. They're profitable not from the fees they collect from the retailers that use the… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
On the whole, and this comment can get me in a lot of trouble, I find that retailers in the comic book… — Rob Walton Copy Share Image
“As retailers have become competitors of manufacturers in many product categories, they reserve more shelfspace for their private label brands and dominate… — Greg Thain Copy Share Image
Besides creating more compulsive gamblers, money spent on lotteries isn't spent on other goods such as clothing or computers, which would trickle… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
“Relative to manufacturers, retailers have huge fixed costs and miniscule margins: this makes their profits more susceptible to small changes in volume… — Greg Thain Copy Share Image
I have no interest in being the biggest, the most profitable or the largest retailer. I just want The Body Shop to… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
“In India, organised chain retailers account for only 7% of the $435 billion market, a share forecast to rise to 20% by… — Greg Thain Copy Share Image
As a retailer, I would ask the customer, "What is it you want in life?" Whatever answer they give, I would help… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
There are lots of retailers that are now scrambling to emulate the Amazon model, so Amazon does not have a monopoly on… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
