Sally Wallick Quotations
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Consumer Quotes
The number of weddings has been fairly stable over time, but the story with David's is they have a better mousetrap in my opinion. ...It makes the shopping experience much easier. So what they've done is they have created a format that is very consumer friendly and solves a lot of problems for the bride-to-be, and they've been able to roll this out. And as a result, they've been gaining market share.
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Almost Quotes
I do think we'll see another record year, but I do think earnings growth will slow relative to last year. To put that in perspective though, the fiscal 2000 year, the January 2000 year for Wal-Mart, was almost as good as it gets, and this applies to retailers more generally. The economy was great; the consumer felt terrific. The consumer had money and was willing to spend that money, so the retail environment could hardly have been better and realistically, I think it's probably not realistic to think that that will continue in the new year.