John Simley Quotations

We believe that recent and imminent technological advances will require a modernization of the item pricing law in the near future.

This is an issue that faces every retailer in the state of Michigan.

If we're going to make this work, the price must be transparent to the consumer.

It's true that it doesn't make sense straight off the bat that someone would shop for a Valentine's Day gift at Home Depot. But we do see a high volume of traffic just before the holiday.

We have not had any instances where a store has been unable to function.

We haven't had a report from any store in the country that has seen a disruption to its operations today that we could attribute to the boycott.

Wal-Mart has been at the forefront of that effort. Our company was among the first retailers in the industry to screen current associates with sex offender registries in every state that allows it.

They've been very well received with shoppers and people don't have problems with the new technology. We wanted to give customers a choice at the front end so that they could pay and leave quickly. The self-checkout has also allowed us to move staff away from registers and improve service in other areas of the store.

The self-checkout has reduced length of lines by a third and the time spent in lines by a third. We estimate that 30 percent of all sales are made through self-checkout at stores equipped with them.

You're finding more and more stealth applications because of zoning restrictions (on conventional towers). And sometimes, frankly, they're the only way to get service into an area.