They are a small brand. They are not a monster brand. The name of the game for them is to build brand awareness and market share.

In retailing, the whole name of the game is to feed off your competitors' footsteps. Wal-Mart is the biggest traffic generator around. It gets over 150 million customers a week.

Wal-Mart has identified a strategy of urban expansion, and they're not going to walk away from it, ... They know that operating in an urban market is different from the suburbs and I'm sure they were already aware of things like zoning laws. Did they really need to put up a fight in Inglewood? No. What they did here is lay down the marker. Wal-Mart is saying that they've identified a new market and they're going to move it and attack.

SARS has not stopped factories from rolling out products in China, ... The only effect it's had on U.S. businesses is that it has led to fewer visits from buyers to the region. So there have been less face-to-face meetings between buyers and suppliers, but companies have gotten around that by teleconferencing.

They're going to have to develop both a product and a brand to sell in Asia. And I'm not sure that Mitsubishi offers them that right now.

I'm not a soldier and I don't want to be, and quite frankly I don't care about the brand name of the guns and that sort of thing.