26 Quotes by Burt Flickinger

For busy parents who stock up on baby food and other items, if they can't easily find it in Wal-Mart, they don't have time to go back. They'll just go to the competition. It's critical for Wal-Mart stores to be fully stocked and have experienced staff on weekends.

Food manufacturers will capitalize on fads as long as they're around and its profitable for them. When it's over, it's on to the next thing.

Consumers increasingly have a conscience and are increasingly shifting to competitors.

Consumers are wearing this year what they wore last year. We're already seeing a slowdown in apparel and accessories and that's a pretty bad barometer going into the winter season.

The biggest implication of Wal-Mart bringing payment processing in-house is the potential for it to save an unprecedented amount of money in yearly fees.

No matter what the stores do, they still seem to not be able to stimulate spending.

For the first time in nearly five years, there is a real softness in the upper-tier department store sector.

The company is in so much of a free fall. It looks like it's going to get worse before it gets better.