Store Management Quotes

When I see something that needs to be corrected, I may talk to a store manager. I don't want to demoralize people when it's beyond their control.

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.

If the store were your own business, you'd escort the customer to a product's location in the store and refer to the customer by name.

One of the most important things we do is we've organized our stores and our workforce into teams.

To review ones store is to mow twice.

Our local department store had two Santas - one for regular kids and one for kids who wanted ten toys or less.

Retail is my game. I spend every waking hour thinking about it. I started in the industry at the age of 18 after trying various other things that were mind-numbingly boring to me.

It takes almost no capital to open a new See's candy store. We're drowning in capital of our own that has almost no cost. It would be crazy to franchise stores like some capital-starved pancake house. We like owning our own stores as a matter of quality control.

Owning a bookstore was right up there with acting in life goals, but other than swaggering around the store, I'm not much use.

I did retail. I worked at TJ Maxx before. I did fast food at Shake Shack.

Looking at the line-up of speakers at the (Democratic National) Convention, I have developed the 7-11 challenge: I will quit making fun of, for example, Dennis Kucinich, if he can prove he can run a 7-11 properly for 8 hours. We'll even let him have an hour or so of preparation before we open up. Within 8 hours, the money will be gone, the store will be empty, and he'll be explaining how three 11-year olds came in and asked for the money and he gave it to them.

Working in a store and being a shop assistant, if you don't know what to do and you like fashion, I think it's a great way of getting into the business because you do windows, cleaning, and everything. That was my school for two years, working in a shop, and that's how I met people in magazines and designers.

This is my hobby: growing stores, adding stores. It's fun.

I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.

My first job was at Baskin-Robbins. I made store manager at 16.

The minute I stepped foot on the shop floor and started serving in a retail environment, I knew it was the career for me. I was a shop assistant for just one day, and I thought, 'This is it. This is the rest of my life. This is all I want to do.'

One day I went to the manager and I asked him whether his model was working and he said, "Well, haven't you seen how many customers we have in this store?" And yes indeed I had. I mean it was definitely attracting a lot of customers, even attracting tourist buses that would land up at this store and people would go through the store and marvel at all the options, even sometimes take photographs of the various aisles.

There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.

So much of what we decide to carry in our stores is based on what we hear through the Dylan's Candy Bar Facebook Page and Twitter feeds.

If you have company-owned stores, you make 100 percent of the profit from each one, but you have less entrepreneurial spirit.

I worked behind the record counter at Woolworths when I was 16. It was when Oasis' 'Definitely Maybe' came out and The Verve were getting big. I'd have probably worked my way up to store manager if I'd have stuck around.

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

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

I probably wanted to be a shopkeeper, because I like tills.

Honestly, being a store manager was the best job I ever had.