Chicken John ("Chicken" John Rinaldi) Quotes
High-end boutiques aren't putting small staple stores out of business. What's putting small staple stores out of business is formula retail.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I would love to walk into a mall and see more than two or three stores that cater to women who are a size 14 and up!
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You never know what life has in store for you, but I believe there are certain things one is meant to go through
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I bring the staple of my culture.
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I used to go to Saks, I would go to Bergdorf, I would go to Barneys, I would go to thrift stores in SoHo.
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Buffer between commercial, memorial and retail space.
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Big Government is erecting a panopticon state - one that sees everything, and regulates everything. It’s great “customer service,” except that you can never get out of the store.
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Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.
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Stores can be indifferent to something new.
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To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that's a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.
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Here's a two step formula for handling stress. Step number one: Don't sweat the small stuff. Step number two: Remember it's all small stuff.
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Certainly our records could be found in most of the mom and pop indie stores, but we still found there were a lot of major stores that weren't on the tip of knowing what was happening and weren't stocking our records as readily as they were stocking, you know, Guns 'n' Roses or Billy Joel or whatever the hell. That certainly changed, and it changed rapidly after Nirvana's rise, that's for sure.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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The three most important things in retail are location, location, location. The three most important things for our consumer business are technology, technology, technology.
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Misery loves company, particularly when she is herself the hostess, and can give generously of her stores to others.
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I love shopping. It's one of my favorite things to do with friends! My favorite stores are H&M, J.Crew, Gap, and Nordstrom.
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Go to the grocery store and buy better things. Buy quality, buy organic, buy natural, go to the farmers market. Immediately that's going to increase the quality of the food you make.
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Magic is always there. Sometimes it just takes an artist to find it and show the rest of us where to look.
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Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.
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You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.
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High-end boutiques aren't putting small staple stores out of business. What's putting small staple stores out of business is formula retail.
