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Kurt Barnard Quotes

«If you stash money away in a savings account, then there's less available to buy things in a store, from candy to cars. This is not quite the conventional retrenchment we've known from past recessions, but it may represent a kind of wishy-washy stagnation.»
Author: Kurt Barnard
«Discounters have captured the world. They [discounters] all did very, very well, but it also underscores once again that it is chic to hunt for bargains and it is chic to save, and that is what the American public wants today, and probably wants forever.»
Author: Kurt Barnard
«People are not going to go on buying binges. People are deep in debt and deep in hock.»
Author: Kurt Barnard
«Today's (consumer confidence) numbers do very little other than to simply confirm what we had predicted some time ago, that a consumer spending slowdown is basically inevitable so long as the employment climate remains as stagnant as it is.»
Author: Kurt Barnard
«The anecdotal evidence would indicate that traffic was not excessively busy. And what consumers were looking for was the sales sign. They looked at the price tag before they looked at the product.»
Author: Kurt Barnard
«These two companies gave a must-have lesson for all retailers, Sharper Image combed the globe for unusual and exciting products that weren't run-off-the-mill ... Retailers made the mistake of taking customers for granted and the payoff came two weeks ago in much weaker Christmas sales because of ho-hum kind of merchandise.»
Author: Kurt Barnard
«I think the NRF forecast is hopefully optimistic. I don't see a pickup in sales until the pace of layoffs slows down.»
Author: Kurt Barnard
«Last weekend we saw a massacre. There were a few shakeups in the top ranks of some retail names, and that's to be expected.»
Author: Kurt Barnard
«Retail sales of Martha Stewart products won't suffer in a terminal way because right now Kmart needs Martha more than Martha needs Kmart. Her products are selling well because people really like them.»
Author: Kurt Barnard
«Rebates are wonderful to the extent that they are executed, regardless of the deficit.»
Author: Kurt Barnard