{"id":4925,"date":"2009-02-05T08:30:13","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T16:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4925"},"modified":"2009-02-05T09:39:32","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T17:39:32","slug":"experts-agree-retail-is-still-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4925","title":{"rendered":"Experts Agree: Retail Is Still Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a knack for overstating the obvious, retail consulting group <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.customergrowthpartners.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Customer Growth Partners<\/a><\/strong> President <strong>Craig Johnson<\/strong> lays down the bad news in a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2009\/02\/05\/news\/economy\/retail_sales\/?postversion=2009020510\">CNN<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is not a good time for retailers. If people are fearful for their jobs, they will tightly hold on to their money and not spend it. This [situation] makes it very difficult for retailers.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Really? What an insightful comment. For all the number from the major retail chains <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/bondsNews\/idUKBNG14346220090205\" target=\"_blank\">click here for a January same-store chart<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2009\/02\/05\/news\/economy\/retail_sales\/?postversion=2009020510\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a knack for overstating the obvious, retail consulting group Customer Growth Partners President Craig Johnson lays down the bad news in a story on CNN: This is not a good time for retailers. If people are fearful for their jobs, they will tightly hold on to their money and not spend it. This [situation] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4925"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4925"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4938,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4925\/revisions\/4938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}