John Fleming Quotations

With the opening of this store, Wal-Mart is adopting an active approach to understanding and meeting customer needs, particularly those of the selective female shopper.

This really appeals to a fashion-forward consumer. Our strategy is to become more relevant to customers who are already in the store across more categories.

This project has been on the table for almost a year and during our recent trip to VSDA (Video Software Dealers Association) show we began finalizing our supplier. Baker & Taylor offers us the opportunity to expand our product line to our members and non-members alike, and will allow us to provide a one stop shopping for all of the family entertainment needs. We look forward to availability of the additional products on our website before the upcoming holiday season begins.

The plant now ensures that we can respond very quickly to changes in customer demand.

Sitar crystallizes years of experience working with our leading-edge electronics customers to define world-class business processes for hardware/software co-development. A highly repeatable and scalable methodology is critical to achieving the schedule compression required to gain a competitive advantage in today's fast-paced electronics market.

On every high-rise building over 13 floors, there's a 13th floor, whether you like it or not. Why try to hide it? It's there.

If a business in California had a supplier in New York that was knocked out, they could say they were affected. There was a lot of leeway on purpose.

If something doesn't work, we will change it and try something else. And when an innovation resonates with our customers, we will consider introducing it in other stores.

I think we would ignore them as a threat at our peril. It isn't going to make life any easier.

I think of this as going above and beyond in terms of price points and the assortment of products that we currently offer.

Metro 7 is an important step in the strategy to fill the gap in our customers' needs.

We'll be trying to make sure if the two companies do get together that there is a positive not a negative aspect on prices.

We're always looking at what the competition is doing, ... But do we want to become like Amazon? No. Amazon is an online shopping mall. It benefited from building a great asset early in the game. We're about store integration and expanding the customer reach to Wal-Mart stores.

We're championing a broader range of customers with more relevant products, more relevant services and a more compelling, helpful in-store experience.

We have but the one drug section for the province of Manitoba, and there literally could be a grow op every five miles.

We're not trying to be Target, we're trying to be Wal-Mart but more relevant to our customer.

This store will function as an active laboratory for testing a range of new ideas and merchandise in a fully operational setting. If something doesn't work, we will change it and try something else. And when an innovation resonates with our customers, we will consider introducing it in other stores.

We have got new vehicles. That will help us to grow profit and revenues. Underpinning all that is a laser focus on costs.

Fiat is the ideal partner for us in this particular project, as they are acknowledged as having been for many years one of the world's leading manufacturers of small cars.

We've been asked what our single biggest challenge is. I said our single biggest opportunity is building brand awareness,

We scale our hours back during spring break. The university is usually about 60 percent of our business.

Everything we do in this store will give us an opportunity to listen to our customers and deliver on our promise of constantly improving their shopping experience.

The Will to Survive documentary presents us with an opportunity to tell a fascinating story. We are delighted to present it as part of our Voices of Color program and give 'voice' to a broader and more positive depiction of African-American images, via wide range, quality programming for the whole family.

The bottom line is that if people are ordering the wine and having it shipped home, who is going to check for an ID?

This is still a test run for us,

This is positioned as a premium brand within Wal-Mart, ... We have a customer that is very interested in fashion and takes a great deal of pride in their personal style, and we haven't really had an offering for them.

The way we see it, the DVD rental service was simply the missing piece for our customers, ... We were already selling DVDs, DVD players and recorders.

This campaign is very much in line with Wal-Mart's strategy of becoming constantly more relevant to the broad range of customers who shop our stores. Although our customers have a wide variety of needs and lifestyles, they all appreciate value, and value is a combination of quality, price, convenience, and trust. Our objective with this campaign is to show how our customers can find value across all our merchandise categories, value that improves the quality of their lives.

This campaign corresponds to our overall objective of being more relevant to the broad range of customers who shop in our stores. We expect our focus on familiar celebrities who are enjoying themselves at home with family and friends to resonate well with everyone who is looking forward to being home for the holidays this year.

As much as 85 percent of U.S. households go to Wal-Mart and we get 100 million visitors a week at the stores. Yet everyone who goes there buys consumables but not apparel or electronics, which are two huge categories, ... We want to complete the shopping experience for our loyal customers and as well as appeal to a different kind of customer.

It's irresponsible to open the door to out-of-state companies while we have been working very hard to put licensing and regulatory measures in place. The crux of the matter is, it's operating under an honor system. We don't have these laws right now. I wish they would have waited.

It's clear that carmakers must offer cleaner models. There's a wide range of technology available.

By creating a single source of responsibility for our marketing communications, we will ensure the consistency of our message to our customer. We want our customers to know that whatever their shopping needs, Wal-Mart provides products and services that are relevant to their lifestyle, at great value. Julie's experience will be instrumental in our efforts to showcase that message.

By starting earlier and building consistent and dynamic messaging around these key categories, we want to show our customers that we have the holiday merchandise they want, when they want it, at the affordable prices they trust from Wal-Mart,

Geneva marks a vibrant start to 2006 for Ford of Europe. We are confident we have the right cars at the right time in the right market.

These are high-end items that consumers typically find at specialty stores and not necessarily at Wal-Mart, ... The idea is to take our base business and layer it with unexpected products.

The common perception is that arthritis is an old person's disease and there's nothing you can do about it but suck it up. Well, that's not true at all.