No wonder they call shopping ‘retail therapy,’ as any girl will tell you how it just takes away all the stress.
Riya Sen
It is difficult to think of a major industry that AI will not transform. This includes healthcare, education, transportation, retail, communications, and agriculture. There are surprisingly clear paths for AI to make a big difference in all of these industries.
Andrew Ng
The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.
Howard Schultz
Steve Jobs once asked me for some advice about retail, but I said, ‘I am not sure at all we are in the same business.’
Bernard Arnault
People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: ‘How do we make the retail experience a great one?’
Philip Green
Money is catching up to the technological trends transforming all aspects of society and business; entertainment, insurance, health-care, gaming, leisure, retail – all commercial and social verticals are going digital – including money itself.
Max Keiser
For food service industry and retail, I’m for the minimum wage being increased to at least $12. Not for manufacturing. Software and robotics are going to revolutionize manufacturing in the next 10 years. In the meantime, we have to compete with overseas manufacturing.
Mark Cuban
Know how to effectively voice a complaint or make a claim at a retail store.
Marilyn vos Savant
Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don’t know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning.
Sam Walton
It was always a plan that we were going to have a retail side with what were doing musically, like an Apple store or Nike Town. I wanted something where you can come get everything – ‘Marathon’ or ‘All Money’ or ‘Crenshaw’ – and make it like an experience. Especially with what Crenshaw and Slauson meant to my story.
Nipsey Hussle
I only like luxury fashion. You have to decide where you stand. I like well-made, authentic clothes, well-crafted tailoring. I also like the dream and fantasy of luxury, the exception and rarity of it. I have no interest at all in fast retail. It is ambiguous.
Hedi Slimane
Wal-Mart is an amazing success story. What I particularly admire very much about the late Sam Walton was his policy of valuing his employees. Giving value to employees is very rare in the retail industry. I also admire the strategies Walton used to build up his discount store concept.
Tadashi Yanai
I wasn’t going to get such a nice car – I was going to get a cute little hybrid or something, keep the trees happy – but then my grandfather died, and it was all: retail therapy!
Chris Colfer
A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.
Lee Iacocca
Normally, we define banks as being either retail or corporate, but ICICI transformed itself from a corporate bank into a retail bank and, now, a universal bank.
Chanda Kochhar
I’ve worked everywhere. I worked in a warehouse packing surf supplies, a restaurant washing dishes, in retail, and I was a ‘sandwich artist’ at Subway.
Margot Robbie
Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
Publilius Syrus
I’ve made my records and I’ve done all the interviews. I’ve done lots of long tours. I’ve made stupid videos. I’ve done all that stuff and learned all the lingo and gone to radio stations and shmoozed with DJs on the air and met retail people.
Frank Black
It is a well-known fact that bringing in technologies in retail sector is good for consumers.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Moving from corporate banking to retail banking to international banking to supervisory roles has meant completely reinventing myself.
Chanda Kochhar
You walk into a retail store, whatever it is, and if there’s a sense of entertainment and excitement and electricity, you wanna be there.
Howard Schultz
If you’re a retail investor, you have set aside some of your hard-earned money for investment or to create a nest egg, for your kids or family.
Vito Fossella
In the future, the best retail sites will know you much better and show you things that are much more relevant.
Aileen Lee
Amazon has done something for all of retail, which is resetting the customer expectations about how quickly and easily you can get things.
Mary Dillon
The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don’t do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods.
Lindsey Graham
In disciplines as disparate as baseball, financial services, trucking and retail, people are realizing the power of data to help make better decisions.
Paul DePodesta
Our focus is more on secured retail business like housing and car loans. While we will do some unsecured loans – credit cards and personal loans – we will do it primarily with existing customers.
Chanda Kochhar
Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student.
Patricia Heaton
A robber who justified his theft by saying that he really helped his victims, by his spending giving a boost to retail trade, would find few converts; but when this theory is clothed in Keynesian equations and impressive references to the ‘multiplier effect,’ it unfortunately carries more conviction.
Murray Rothbard
The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
William James
Retail is undergoing a massive change, and there is a chance for new leaders to emerge and older brands to reinvent themselves.
Kirsten Green
My dad moved to Britain from Bangladesh in the 1960s to work as an actuary for Prudential. However, after seeing an empty retail space in Soho, he decided to open an Asian restaurant instead, despite not having any business experience.
Konnie Huq
Lending has come back in retail; it has come back in working capital. It has also come back in other forms, like government contract being given out to companies.
Chanda Kochhar
Comedy historians take note: this Gottfried character doesn’t have the best eye for detail – and, for a Jew, he doesn’t have the best eye for retail, either.
Gilbert Gottfried
The majority of people are perfectly capable of interacting with retail staff without spitting on them or whipping their hides like dawdling cattle, but Planet Earth still harbours more than its fair share of disappointments.
Charlie Brooker
I remember my first job, when I was working in a retail store down there, growing up in Laurel, Mississippi. I was making, like, $2.15 an hour. And I was taught how to responsibly handle those customer interactions.
Marsha Blackburn
At the end of the day, especially in retail, you’ve got humans serving humans. And really, the more engaged and happier the associates are, the happier our guests are. It’s not complicated.
Mary Dillon
I’m in the retail business, not the circus business.
Philip Green
I think Amazon is the greatest start-up and the greatest company in the world. The way they are using new technologies is not just disrupting retail, it’s getting ready to disrupt everything.
Mark Cuban
The ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing – I think that should really be considered. We have this industry in which we cut down trees to make the paper that we then use enormous amounts of electricity to turn into books that weigh a great deal and are then shipped enormous distances to point-of-sale retail.
William Gibson
My retail partners, they are my brand ambassadors. They’re the ones who are selling the shoes to women.
Edgardo Osorio
I did retail. I worked at TJ Maxx before. I did fast food at Shake Shack.
Young M.A
Rising incomes and positive demographics will provide opportunities for retail financial services in India.
Chanda Kochhar
Both of my parents were college-educated within the curriculum in Haiti. When they came to the United States, both had to learn English. My mother worked in retail and continues to do so today, working as the lead sales representative in a fine-jewelry store. My father became a machinist.
Reggie Fils-Aime
I got turned onto the ‘Pat Garrett’ soundtrack when I worked retail back in the day.
Darius Rucker
Aggression at a time when the economy was growing at substantial rates and the retail lending as an industry was growing at a substantial rate was an appropriate aggression. Caution at a time when the economic environment is so uncertain is an appropriate caution.
Chanda Kochhar
Retail is now totally propelled by consumers and their needs. People can buy what they want in any way that they want it. That trend started a long time ago, and it has really changed everything.
Kirsten Green
As we were growing retail, and it was a huge growth phase, it was very important to keep our quality under control. Therefore, it was not just distribution, not just back-office operations, but also the risk-management practices. And these we learned together, supported by technology.
Chanda Kochhar
Investment in Shriram will actually enable us to enter some of the retail segments such as vehicle financing, consumer and gold loans, and other products such as insurance, mutual funds, among others, where we wanted to have a footprint.
Ajay Piramal
Millions of Americans and businesses rely on the Postal Service to deliver our medicine, ballots, and retail goods – securely and on time. The Postal Service deserves our full support.
Alex Padilla
I started with jewelry when I was probably 24 years old. It was really just in response to a feeling that most of the fine jewelers were men appealing to men and selling pieces in a very unmodern way. I felt that there was a huge demographic of self-purchasing women who were feeling uncomfortable in the traditional retail environment.
Ivanka Trump
Successful strategic vision lay in the fact that we visualized the retail business to be much bigger, ahead of what others thought it to be.
Chanda Kochhar
I’m more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It’s not a retail experience. It’s an existential one.
Thomas Lynch
Grandfather was an old-fashioned pharmacist who never ceased venting his resentment at the growing number of retail items the drugstore had to carry, and he would go into periods of fearful rage when the subject of chain stores was raised.
Walter Cronkite
There are things about retail that are not enjoyable.
Doug McMillon
The idea of going somewhere where the salesperson is able to personalize the retail experience for you doesn’t work anymore. Stitch Fix is an opportunity to provide a service for people who are looking for more than just buying the cheapest thing with one-day shipping.
Katrina Lake
We also never undercut representatives’ prices. A representative will always be able to sell the discounts in our core business, which are not offered at retail. So it’s never more advantageous to buy there.
Andrea Jung
We are extremely focused on building some of the assets which are going into mid-India, semi-urban and rural, and that’s our DNA. We are building a retail bank, and a lot of the deposit base is still in urban India.
Uday Kotak
We’re a boring retail and commercial bank.
Ana Patricia Botin
Retail is about change. It’s challenging and fast-paced. It’s a team sport.
Doug McMillon
I spent my time, growing up, essentially between two things: technology and retail. I was fascinated by selling and loved the idea of making a profit, but I also spent a lot of time on technology.
Tobias Lutke
The power of digital distribution over physical retail outlets is you have a chance to create a global audience.
Chad Hurley
No one in my family had a retail or marketing background. They were professionals. They didn’t understand just what I was doing by going into retailing. After I started, though, it got into my blood. I knew this was what I wanted.
Andrea Jung
You can compare the retail business to basketball. You have to have a plan, you have to hustle, you have to rely on each other, and there’s a scoreboard on the wall.
Doug McMillon
We want to use innovation to be the most productive retail store in the industry.
Doug McMillon
Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It’s done one voter at a time.
Mary Cheney
Let there be no mistake: John W. Nordstrom was no retail expert. But throughout his life, he did what he had to do – hopefully we all have that in us.
Bruce Nordstrom
Many retail stores have consumer trackers that study how long your eyes linger on one product, whether you follow it through by touch, and things that you buy. You can redesign things on a shelf, all by tracking such information.
Jan Chipchase
The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you want to know where the stock market is headed, forget about consumer spending and retail sales figures. Look to business spending, price inflation, interest rates, and productivity gains.
Mark Skousen
I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
Garth Brooks
When you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you’re not just bringing the products, but you’re also harming local manufacturers.
Narendra Modi
At HSN, entertainment has quickly become a core part of who we are and is a key differentiator from others in the retail landscape.
Mindy Grossman
Chains do more than bargain down prices from suppliers or divide fixed costs across a lot of units. They rapidly spread economic discovery – the scarce and costly knowledge of what retail concepts and operational innovations actually work.
Virginia Postrel
Managing and moving your money should be a right, not a privilege. This isn’t about banking the unbanked. It’s about re-imagining what consumer retail banking can be.
Dan Schulman
Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We’ve got all kinds of products.
Earl Campbell
We got to know the competition very well. In the ’50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets.
Orville Redenbacher
Some people see Black Friday as a much-needed break for their wallet. I see it as retail outlets showing the customers the full weight of their contempt. The frenzy to buy cheap crap from China, the human downgrade of people fighting with each other over items they can probably live without, to me, is an insult.
Henry Rollins
I don’t think we yet know – because it’s probably not big enough – what exactly Amazon does to our cities, but whatever it is, I don’t anticipate retail wastelands. If anything, it’s maybe a wake-up call to retailers that they just have to offer something meaningful to customers.
Brad Stone
I’ve always been inspired by retail entertainment, whether Ralph Lauren or the Disney Store or Niketown.
Dylan Lauren
Technology is fundamentally changing what it means to work – and the retail industry is no exception.
Doug McMillon
Sal and I were in the mall just shopping, and we’re walking through this retail store and little old lady goes ‘NO! You’re not gonna get at me.’ We were just shopping. She was looking for cameras, she was like ‘I know who you are, you crazies!’ and she walked away from us.
Joe Gatto
I’m paranoid about shopping. I get irritable. I find it tedious and taxing. People say shopping is retail therapy, but I need therapy after shopping.
Anushka Sharma
After I retired, it seemed to me that there was a whole new world out there, which was a digital world driven by a marketplace, basically, which had a huge potential driven by handheld devices, which would one day become the virtual retail store of India.
Ratan Tata
As with so many sectors of the economy, technology is transforming the retail banking sector.
Jerome Powell
I support both a Fair Tax and a Flat Tax plan that would dramatically streamline the tax system. A Fair Tax would replace all federal taxes on personal and corporate income with a single national tax on retail sales, while a Flat Tax would apply the same tax rate to all income with few if any deductions or exemptions.
Ralph Hall
I mean, our primary businesses in wholesale pipelines, utilities, retail, were all doing extremely well.
Kenneth Lay
Well, there’s no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market.
Gray Davis
You replace it by 23 percent tax, a frank, transparent tax embedded in the cost at retail, and everybody gets to takes their whole check home. And the average income earner gets a 50 percent increase in take-home pay.
John Linder
For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.
Howard Nemerov
The rich pay more in total taxes now than ever before – ever. It’s true. Just like it’s true that when the rich are convinced they’re going to be taxed more, they spend less. And when the top few percenters don’t spend, there goes all your spending, because they account for half of all retail spending.
Neil Cavuto
Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences.
Vince Cable
I’d never worked in fashion or retail. I just needed an undergarment that didn’t exist.
Sara Blakely
When I started my company, many people said I shouldn’t launch it as a retail concept because it was too big a risk. They told me to launch as a wholesaler to test the waters – because that was the traditional way.
Tory Burch
I wanted to create a new way of looking at retail.
Tory Burch
My first job was in retail at the age of 14, and I have worked in the industry ever since.
Rachel Roy
I like loud music. I like music that fills my ears. I’m just going to pull out my iPod and see what we got here. We’re always interested in new bands because we have a retail store in northern California. I think it’s got to be happy.
Tyler Florence
My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there’s a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop of my childhood, these ominous prisons sitting off the road.
Eric Stonestreet
The investment we’re all looking for is actually saving labor… Look at what the internet is doing to retail.
James Chanos
There’s a game called Checkout where there’s grocery items and it’s how much you think the manufacturer’s suggested retail price is and we add up your total, then your total has to be within $2 of the regular total. I don’t think I could ever win that game.
Drew Carey
Arkansas is a state where politics is retail.
Mike Huckabee
In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you’re in a sales position, if you’re in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do.
Tate Taylor
I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don’t necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.
James Dyson
As retail goes through a fundamental shift into the digital world, I believe Ocado’s model and the high standards of customer service it provides will see it emerge as a powerful online player.
Stuart Rose
When color TV arrived, it just sat there and you saw color. I’ve been to retail stores where there were no 3-D glasses at all and the 3-D images were all blurred. People were coming in and saying, ‘I don’t want to buy that.’ There’s a lot of marketing connected to introducing technologies and especially introducing new experiences.
Howard Stringer
McDonald’s has been extraordinary at site selection; it was a pioneer in studying the best places for retail locations. One of the things it did is study very carefully where sprawl was headed.
Eric Schlosser
To make a bestseller, there are more customers than just your customers: Selling to the end-user is just one piece of the puzzle. In my case, I needed to first sell myself to the publisher to get marketing support and national retail distribution.
Tim Ferriss
We’re the only major company in the U.S. that is solely in the professional beauty industry. We promised hairdressers when we started that we would stay with them. If I went retail tomorrow then we would be four times our size overnight, but I’m going to be the one guy who kept his word.
John Paul DeJoria
I bought into Saks as a personal investment because, when I was a young man and went to America for the first time, it seemed to me that Saks was like a cathedral of retail. I never dreamt that I could one day be a part of it. And now I am.
Diego Della Valle
Every time a consumer walks into a retail store, experiences the Nokia experience for the first time and purchases that product. Those are the moments where you say, ‘We’ve hit it. We’ve nailed it.’
Stephen Elop
In the traditional modernist planning that created the suburbs, you put residential buildings in suburban neighborhoods, office spaces into brain parks and retail in shopping malls. But you fail to exploit the possibility of symbiosis or synthesis that way.
Bjarke Ingels
I promise you that there are a lot of people involved in various kinds of retail activities who think they have a crucial role in the economy, and they’re right.
Lawrence Summers
The ventures that keep things light and fun, easy to understand, that have a compelling story, a sexy retail product, will have an easier time getting people to rally around them and contribute. A start-up doing something that’s difficult to communicate or doesn’t offer any kind of retail product will have a tougher go at it.
Jessica Jackley
I’m thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.
Padmasree Warrior
If you think about Cisco’s offerings like TelePresence, where it’s an immersive way to communicate for businesses to connect and have conversations in a real-time immersive mode, how that will change health care, how that’ll change retail business, how that’ll change actually travel. There’s lots of changes that we will see going forward.
Padmasree Warrior
You can’t take up all the music bins at a CD retail outlet with Spice Girls CDs and leave nothing for the Joan Jett catalogue.
Greg Graffin
I do think that in order for a company to be interesting to the investment community, there needs to be a plan; there needs to be a bigger retail footprint. There needs to be this idea – DNA, lifestyle, words I hate.
Marc Jacobs
My father’s whole life was work. He had a retail store in Ossining, New York, and I mean, he was down there at 6:15 every morning. The store didn’t open until 9, but he hadda be down there. That’s all he knew.
Peter Falk
At age 28, I had no retail experience, no consumer marketing experience and no real Internet experience. But I decided I wanted to work for myself. I felt starting a company would enable me to get the responsibility I deserved and that I couldn’t do that within the confines of a bigger company.
Mariam Naficy
People are scrambling to figure out how they can prolong the life of an album. But as long as the shelf space continues to shrink at retail, there’s just no room for them anymore… which is fine with me! I would love to be the next person in country to just release digital singles, but I think we’re probably a little ways from that.
Blake Shelton
Trying to move the volume of products we’re talking about from place to place to get it ultimately into the customer’s hands, to price these items, to market these items, I think the retail business is incredibly complex. But if you get it right, it’s a beautiful thing.
Edward Lampert
I’m not from a retail background, but I am a shopper.
Edward Lampert
As more workers lose manufacturing jobs as companies cut back, some are being forced into lower-paying retail jobs. But they still have union cards in their wallets.
Bill Dedman
Although the number of manufacturing jobs in the United States has stagnated, dropping 12 percent from a high in the early 1980s, the number of retail jobs has risen 43 percent.
Bill Dedman
In a world lit by data, street corners are painted with contextual information, automobiles can navigate autonomously, thermostats respond to patterns of activity, and retail outlets change as rapidly (and individually) as search results from Google.
John Battelle
People always say to me, ‘You’ve really strived to redefine retail.’ But the reality is, I wanted to redefine magazines.
Natalie Massenet
If I don’t get enough sleep, my brain gets fatigued, and the voice suffers. If I’m doing some retail work and trying to read and record legal copy, I start sounding like I had a few too many the night before.
Roger Craig Smith
A lot of times, I can put a product together with a distributor when I go into my Rolodex for distributors. I can then put it together with a face, such as an artist. And then I can go into my databank of retailers and people that I’ve been working with through the years of retail, and then also manufacturing.
Daymond John
Canada Day comes and goes modestly every year. Sure, there are retail sales promotions and a long weekend. But there isn’t bluster or commodity in Canadian celebration. Canada isn’t big on bunting. Or jet flyovers, fireworks, marching bands or military pomp.
Rick Moranis
There’s a restaurant in Manhattan called Balthazar, and next to it is Balthazar Bakery. It’s tiny, and it’s very charming to have that little retail outlet to sell the house desserts and breads.
Tom Douglas
Retail banking in Africa is very weak. You can’t go to a village and get money from an ATM or visit a branch of the bank. So people have to use the Internet.
Mo Ibrahim