Jim Cantalupo

And ours is a business that requires discipline and focus. ↗

— Jim Cantalupo

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And so if your competitors aren't growing, if there isn't a competitive reason to grow, and you want focus and discipline to add customers to existing stores, you adjust your strategy. ↗

— Jim Cantalupo

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As I said, I haven't spent a lot of time thinking about partner brands. ↗

— Jim Cantalupo

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But I tell you, I would really be interested if there was a partner we could take in, that could put them over here on the side, that would allow us full leverage and access down the road. ↗

— Jim Cantalupo

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But in terms of the code by which we go to market - it's not telling kids to supersize, we're not selling them, generally, products, in the advertising we do to them. ↗

— Jim Cantalupo

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But we had a pretty diversified portfolio of businesses around the world and things tended to offset each other. But one or two years ago, we had a lot of things happening at the same time. ↗

— Jim Cantalupo

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But you know the second month I was here I put out a healthy lifestyles directive. The pundits will say it was because we were sued. Well that's what they say. It was never about that. ↗

— Jim Cantalupo

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But, on balance, we seized the marketplace. We've got a great infrastructure. And yes it's struggling in some areas because of some external factors and some internal factors. ↗

— Jim Cantalupo

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Every year we close 300-400 stores anyway, just relocations. ↗

— Jim Cantalupo

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You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business. ↗

— Jim Cantalupo

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