Shopping Trends Quotes

Women as consumers are a very powerful force.

A lot of people are buying things on the Internet - not just white men.

In 1991, if someone came in with a $1 million budget for a boutique, I would have fainted. Nobody spent even half that. But now, the bar has risen very high.

My big places to shop are Wal-Mart and Target - seriously. That is where half of my stuff comes from now.

The malls are getting more and more crowded. Customers will come online and find an easy place to shop.

I don't buy from any one special designer.

When I first started at HSN, I knew that retailers would have to be poised to take advantage of technology and the rapidly changing ways in which people shop. It was one of the things that drew me to the company.

Strip malls are history.

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.

The habits of the American consumer are changing; that's a reality.

That so-called feminine ardor for clothes shopping had been flagging for some time. Between 1980 and 1986, at the same time that women were buying more houses, cars, restaurant dinners, and health care services, they were buying fewer pieces of clothing-from dresses to underwear.

Virtual reality and augmented reality will change the way we shop.

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My besties do Victoria's Secret. I just don't do it.

If you think you know the consumer better than anyone, then you're in real trouble. So we take a close watch. You spend time in stores.

I was like, Amazon Prime? Who has Amazon Prime? It turns out everybody.

I'm not from a retail background, but I am a shopper.

We decided to set our direct-action program around the Easter season, realizing that, with exception of Christmas, this was the largest shopping period of the year. Knowing that a strong economic withdrawal program would be the by-product of direct action.

Well, probably the best way to put it might be that at some time, not just in an instant, but over some period of time I became aware of the fact that I wanted to document examples like Kroger or Piggly Wiggly in the late '50s, early '60s.

In a world of niches, we are enchained by our own consumer preferences.

The beauty of men's shoppers is that they're super loyal.

People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one?'

I think many men are either time poor or have little interest in going to stores. I love stores.

I was a woman and younger. I started spending a lot of time in the mall doing a lot of qualitative research and really watching what consumers were doing. Were they gravitating towards the sales racks, or were they looking at the new fashions? Were they there to shop, or were they there to socialize?

Men and women shop very differently, and where women are open to edgy, conceptual looks, very, very few men are.