Quotes About Retail

I hate Victoria's Secret but can definitely get into Forever 21.

I worked at Suncoast Video for two years during the summer in high school.

When I started half.com, our three biggest competitors were Borders, Tower Records and Blockbuster Video.

I've made my records and I've done all the interviews. I've done lots of long tours. I've made stupid videos. I've done all that stuff and learned all the lingo and gone to radio stations and shmoozed with DJs on the air and met retail people.

Sadly, piped music in so many public spaces is often just more noise. Rarely is it carefully designed to enhance our experience; much more likely it is there because retailers have subscribed to an incorrect view that music makes people spend more.

I love to go shopping at Target. They have so much stuff there, you can buy almost anything, it's really amazing.

The power of digital distribution over physical retail outlets is you have a chance to create a global audience.

Companies whose marketing and sales departments are not using the Internet and social media for communication may have the same fate that the dime stores had when Wal-Mart came onto the scene.

in 1884, at a shoe store in Vicksburg, a man named Phil Gilbert came up with the idea of selling left and right shoes together in the same box!

For clothes, I like Dover Street Market and Acne. For vintage, I go to Mint just off Seven Dials. For shoes, it's Church's and Russell & Bromley.

While stores continue to be a very important part of our business, there is no mistaking the fact that the customers' shopping preference, measured by both traffic and sales, continues to move to a virtual experience.

Walmart: Let's buy 30 cash registers...and only keep two open!

I wouldn't call it a retail store. It's a place where culture and commerce intersect. It's more like the Silk Road-a sense of exploration mixed with the exchange of things and ideas.

I like to walk around John Lewis or Selfridges window-shopping.

The mall is my life.

I don't like going to the mall.

Mini-skirts, Prada and Agnes B are for New York and L.A. Washington is more America's equivalent of Marks & Spencer.

the wealth they had accumulated from retail needed to hide its origins, for it is well known that the purity of gold increases the further removed it is from labor.

By 2000, Americans had built almost twice as much retail space per citizen as any other country in the world: over nineteen square feet per person. Most of it was in malls.

there wouldn't be any buying it on FamousRainforest and having it auto-shipped to her location.

People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one?

Having some retail experience is key. It really is where the battle is won or lost.

Sephora's business is really smart and clever - I'm all for anything that gets people up and out and into the social experience of shopping.

Admit it, we all feel cool when we walk around the mall with tons of shopping bags in our arms.