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PAUL BLANK With higher gasoline prices putting a dent in consumer spending and underlying inflation looking to ...
ANGUS CAMPBELL The question for Wal-Mart should be when will Wal-Mart demand an investigation of itself?
PAUL BLANK If you look at our key demographic of 21- to 34-year-olds, there are more kids going to college, the...
JEFF BECKER You can't really talk about these issues without talking about Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart drags everybody do...
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C. BRITT BEEMER Consumption is up considerably and that trend is not going to reverse itself. Higher oil prices are ...
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EMME KOZLOFF People are saying 'let's take a second look' at nuclear power. Rising oil prices means nuclear is be...
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JEFF GOLC Gas prices have a significant impact on the consumer psyche,
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GARY F EVANS... As long as the consumer confidence remains positive, which it is, you are going to see continued con...
FAROOQ KATHWARI the misrepresentation of Wal-Mart.
LEE SCOTT Wal-Mart is listening to everything that we are doing. The message we put out must be consistent.
DION HARDY What we're really concerned about, and what we think our customers are concerned about, is that when...
JEFF KEEBLER You have a company that cannot sell its power and customers who are going to have higher prices to p...
DANIELE SEITZ We haven't yet seen the negative effect of gas prices on consumer spending. It's certainly not here ...
DELOS SMITH Target and Wal-Mart simply aren't on the same scale. Wal-Mart regularly seeks to be treated differen...
ANDREW GROSSMAN The hurricanes and the gas prices have hurt us,
JOYCE ROGERS Commodity prices are going to go higher. We're not going to see a lot of the economic benefit of the...
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SUNG WON SOHN Companies are doing well, but aren't passing their wealth on to employees. Consumer spending is unde...
JACQUES CAILLOUX Ultimately, it will be higher prices for the consumer.
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HARRY CURTIS Despite the fact that gasoline prices have obviously fallen dramatically from where they peaked afte...
AL HUBBARD Consumers need an uplift, not a kick in the teeth. If we don't get them spending soon, policy makers...
MICHAEL DICKS Spring is the best time to go looking. Prices tend to be lower, the demand is lower. Power purchase ...
BOB ROMANCHECK They saw Wal-Mart coming at them. I think Target may have to sharpen some of their prices a little b...
BRITT BEEMER I don't like Wal-Mart. People smell funny.
EMILY HALL People ask me what's the difference between how Wal-Mart and Target treat workers. I tell them Wal-M...
BERNIE HESSE Our members are feeling higher energy prices at the gas pump and in their travel costs. It's absolut...
BARBARA KASOFF
ALAN RIFKIN Gas prices are going to keep rising and that's going to have a negative impact on consumer spending ...
BEN HALLIBURTON Some economists estimate that for every one-cent increase in the price of gas, spending in other are...
LARS PERNER It's going to cost the average household $600 more a year just to put gas in their car. Ticket price...
DAVID SWENSON I continue to believe that the effects of higher gas prices on the consumer are overestimated. Most ...
RICHARD HASTINGS Historically, Wal-Mart has only been concerned about the consumer. But 12 years ago, Wal-Mart began ...
BILL DREHER
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MICHAEL MALONE Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton once said, 'High expectations are the key to everything' and we agree. S...
ANDREW GROSSMAN But when you try to out-Wal-Mart Wal-Mart, how dumb are you? I tell people to quit playing that game...
FRANK DELL I don't think anybody knows what the gas prices are going to do. We've seen all the indications that...
BILL DYER Wal-Mart listens to consumers and will only alter its behavior if you alter your behavior. Customers...
CHARLES FISHMAN People are focusing on the impact of higher energy prices on the consumer instead of focusing on the...
DREW MATUS We believe that consumer spending is going to bear the brunt of higher energy prices that we have se...
JOSHUA SHAPIRO Probably the most critical impact of higher energy prices is their ability to weaken consumer spendi...
GAIL FOSLER Consumers are very concerned with value given high gas prices, interest-rate increases and high debt...
JACKIE FERNANDEZ We have already started to see some consumer resistance on high oil prices and this is obviously goi...
HOWARD SILVERBLATT Wal-Mart kills local businesses. Wal-Mart lowers their prices so far down that mom and pop stores ca...
CHRIS AMON The hike in pump prices, and electricity and gas tariffs that have also been raised, fed through to ...
EUBEN PARACUELLES We can clearly see consumer prices starting to rise and investors are going to demand higher yields.
MAKOTO YAMASHITA September sales were surprisingly resilient in the face of significantly higher gasoline prices. Whi...
EMME KOZLOFF Oil prices are increasing and (US) consumer spending is strong.
JOSEPH YAM Low prices is what (Wal-Mart) built the business and brand on, ... This is just another dimension.
JENNIFER WARREN Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton once said, 'High expectations are the key to everything,' and we agree.
ANDREW GROSSMAN Wal-Mart and what Wal-Mart does contrasts sharply with what the Green Party believes.
DON JUDD The interesting question is not just Hillary Clinton's history at Wal-Mart, but why it's delicate fo...
CHARLES FISHMAN If we're really concerned about negotiating the best prices possible, the best way is to buy in bulk...
JUDITH STEIN I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and ...
S. ROBSON WALTON Higher oil increasingly will creep into the indicators. Today, it biased the trade gap higher and pu...
DREW MATUS Is Wal-Mart going after the Hispanic and African-American consumers? Absolutely. They're a significa...
HOWARD DAVIDOWITZ If crude oil prices hit $60 a barrel, that's going to stir up old fears of higher energy prices and ...
ANDRE BAKHOS consumer spending has not been dented by the hurricane-inspired rise in gasoline prices and fears of...
CHRIS RUPKEY The increase in oil prices is going to be problematic to the consumer as well as higher home heating...
ANN HURLEY I know of a couple street improvements that are going to have to be made whether or not Wal-Mart ope...
CORY CREBBIN Retailers, after reporting a better than expected January, are having the opposite effect for Februa...
SONJA RUDD You'd think higher energy would put a lid on stocks, but the market's going up. People seem to be mo...
BOB BASEL
People are able to pull money out of their homes and put it into their gas tanks. So the overall eff... MARK ZANDI There is also a workable Wal-Mart nearby so Wal-Mart gift cards and cash donations are also accepted...
CRAIG NICHOSON The best way for Wal-Mart workers to have a voice is through a union. Wal-Mart Workers of America wi...
JOE HANSEN Wal-Mart is a litmus test for the economy with respect to consumer spending. One thing I'll be inter...
JEFFREY KLINEFELTER
If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more... CARLOS SLIM Any bets on dollar weakness will be a bet that higher energy prices will divert consumer spending, w...
JEFF GLADSTEIN Basically the economy is sluggish. We are seeing consumers resisting spending and the outlook for th...
DANA TELSEY If gas prices go up, the consumer is going to be a little tighter than they were.
ROBERT JOHNSON Oil and natural gas prices, as well as heating oil costs, are much higher than they were a year ago,...
ED MARAN Last week, chain-store sales came in pretty strong. But if you stripped out gasoline sales from Wal-...
ELLEN BEESON It's hard to escape a week without some negative story about Wal-Mart. Let's look at the facts. Wal-...
BRITT BEEMER It's clear that [Wal-Mart] is going to offer very sharp price [discounts] to drive customer traffic....
BILL DREHER In general, the economy is proving to be resilient to energy and gas price pressure. It's on a growt...
MICHAEL ENGLUND I'd spend more money on gas to drive (to Wal-Mart) than I would save (in fees).
CHRISTINA POWERS Wal-Mart provides a chilling example of the damage that low-wage, nonunion corporations can wreak, a...
ANDREW STERN Wal-Mart is certainly looking to hitch its wagon to a brand that can lead it to an upscale consumer ...
ROBERT PASSIKOFF It's clear that there's a concern about very high gas prices. As gas prices started escalating in Ju...
DENNIS JACOBE Wal-Mart is Wal-Mart, and the sooner that everybody realizes they're not going away, that's not new ...
JACK RUSSO The trend is for higher yields given the outlook for economic growth. Consumer prices will probably ...
HIDENORI SUEZAWA There are a lot of people who hate Wal-Mart. In the absence of data, they have a visceral reaction,
DAVID NEUMARK Right now what is going on is prices are high and they are going higher.
DAVID HACKETT This is Wal-Mart auditing Wal-Mart.
FRED FURTH The employment picture remains fairly grim, and that's having a dampening effect on measures of cons...
JOE ABATE
The ripple effect from Hurricane Katrina may be far reaching, ... already sent fuel prices soaring w... WILLIAM ADAMS The notion that drilling for natural gas can solve the winter heating problem is a misconception. We...
LISA SPEER Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU The new Wal-Mart hasn't affected us, it's affected the old Wal-Mart.
RICHARD GARNER Today, Wal-Mart executive after Wal-Mart executive talked about the responsibility
PAUL BLANK With higher gasoline prices putting a dent in consumer spending and underlying inflation looking to ...
ANGUS CAMPBELL The question for Wal-Mart should be when will Wal-Mart demand an investigation of itself?
PAUL BLANK If you look at our key demographic of 21- to 34-year-olds, there are more kids going to college, the...
JEFF BECKER You can't really talk about these issues without talking about Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart drags everybody do...
CAROLE FLORMAN I think that Wal-Mart has come to the realization that it cannot be focused on low-prices alone. The...
C. BRITT BEEMER Consumption is up considerably and that trend is not going to reverse itself. Higher oil prices are ...
DAN VERU The most surprising aspect of the earnings release was management's more conservative outlook for th...
EMME KOZLOFF People are saying 'let's take a second look' at nuclear power. Rising oil prices means nuclear is be...
WILLIAM RAMSAY Once Wal-Mart is in full-swing, it will hurt even more. It's a challenging world, but we are doing w...
JEFF GOLC Gas prices have a significant impact on the consumer psyche,
KEN PERKINS Increasing home prices and the ability of consumers to cash out their growing home equity has been a...
DENNIS JACOBE Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE Unprecedented in its size and scope, Higher Expectations Week unifies concerned citizens to highligh...
ANDREW GROSSMAN If gas prices are just holding steady and not increasing, and if incomes are rising, your gas bill i...
STEVEN WIETING Our business is more impacted by consumer confidence than even a little spike in the interest rates ...
FAROOQ KATHWARI If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... As long as the consumer confidence remains positive, which it is, you are going to see continued con...
FAROOQ KATHWARI the misrepresentation of Wal-Mart.
LEE SCOTT Wal-Mart is listening to everything that we are doing. The message we put out must be consistent.
DION HARDY What we're really concerned about, and what we think our customers are concerned about, is that when...
JEFF KEEBLER You have a company that cannot sell its power and customers who are going to have higher prices to p...
DANIELE SEITZ We haven't yet seen the negative effect of gas prices on consumer spending. It's certainly not here ...
DELOS SMITH Target and Wal-Mart simply aren't on the same scale. Wal-Mart regularly seeks to be treated differen...
ANDREW GROSSMAN The hurricanes and the gas prices have hurt us,
JOYCE ROGERS Commodity prices are going to go higher. We're not going to see a lot of the economic benefit of the...
G. LOGAN JORDAN That's one of the reasons why consumers are not going on a spending spree, though they're keeping th...
SUNG WON SOHN Companies are doing well, but aren't passing their wealth on to employees. Consumer spending is unde...
JACQUES CAILLOUX Ultimately, it will be higher prices for the consumer.
CHARLES O. HOLLIDAY Through November [2002], we believed that discretionary consumer spending growth of 3 percent was ad...
HARRY CURTIS Despite the fact that gasoline prices have obviously fallen dramatically from where they peaked afte...
AL HUBBARD Consumers need an uplift, not a kick in the teeth. If we don't get them spending soon, policy makers...
MICHAEL DICKS Spring is the best time to go looking. Prices tend to be lower, the demand is lower. Power purchase ...
BOB ROMANCHECK They saw Wal-Mart coming at them. I think Target may have to sharpen some of their prices a little b...
BRITT BEEMER I don't like Wal-Mart. People smell funny.
EMILY HALL People ask me what's the difference between how Wal-Mart and Target treat workers. I tell them Wal-M...
BERNIE HESSE Our members are feeling higher energy prices at the gas pump and in their travel costs. It's absolut...
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