14 Quotes by Donald Trott

Old Navy is the one that's really hemorrhaging.

I think it's going to be very, very good. The question is, is it very, very good, or is it hey, this is just super-great hall-of-fame good?

I think the major issue that it always boils down to is ongoing earnings opportunities. The cellular business has been the primary driver in more recent years, but we think cellular will become increasingly competitive.

While Circuit City has embarked on a program to modernize and hopefully improve in-store execution, the feeling is they continue to lose market share and fall behind the competition.

We think that investor speculation on a potential take-over of the company could keep shares in the mid-$20s range.

There is a lot of money going into home real estate, and home improvement runs in step with that.

What happens is anything that becomes too 'in' eventually becomes sort of 'out,' so you have Gap as a very stale, mature concept.

Best Buy is the best of breed in the consumer electronics space right now. Circuit City's problems are worsening. It's really a questionable move for the company to get rid of some of its best sales people when its sales are eroding.

It's too early to figure out the impact, but generally, if you're losing market share, reducing customer service does very little to stem that loss.