Discounters Quotes

We continue to believe that all of the concern over the discounters' push into consumer electronics may be overblown. - Gary Balter

These very same consumers are the ones mainly impacted by the higher price of heating their homes, so they may not have as much disposable income this year as last year and that certainly will be a challenge for discounters. - Scott Krugman

The upper end of the economy has done very well and the stock market is at a 3-1/2 year high. This bodes well for the high-end merchants... Discounters would have had a hard time because their customers were impacted by higher gas prices and uncertainty about jobs. - George Whalin

The thing about discounters also is that their products are all generic. That could be challenging sales. The story definitely is that something is changing with regard to the consumer. - Michael Niemira

The discounters, especially Wal-Mart, have realized it is to their advantage to be very aggressive in the fourth quarter. ...It makes life harder. The other issue, of course, is it's convenient. Since most Americans are already in Wal-Mart or Target on a regular basis, making a purchase of toys there is easier than getting back in the car and making a special trip to Toys 'R' Us, and Toys 'R' Us has had a problem with that. If you're going to be a specialty store, you've got to give people a reason to make the trip. - Ursula Moran

Retailers are being forced to turn into discounters at all levels, and that early transformation to a discounting posture is putting great pressure on profits... Retailers make a good percentage of their profitability in the last two months of the year. This year those earnings are going to be under real pressure. They'll be fighting to keep costs down. - John Challenger

Nobody wants to put the discounters or whatever you want to call them out of business. - Doug Miller