It was a sales job. We didn't get the Cadillac, but I think we came pretty darn close in getting management focused on what needed to be happening here.

Online sales still represent about 2 percent of total retails sales. So there's a lot more room to grow.

Online sales still represent about 2 percent of total retails sales. So there's a lot more room to grow,

Online sales are growing at a healthy clip, even though sales may have pulled back somewhat from the robust pace seen earlier this year.

Wal-Mart was rightly cautious with its outlook. Their first-quarter sales barely met the lower end of their 2 to 4 percent guidance.

Last week, chain-store sales came in pretty strong. But if you stripped out gasoline sales from Wal-Mart and Costco it really showed us that consumer spending had started to weaken on a fundamental level.