As we get through the season, department stores are going to be brutal in throwing merchandise back to vendors.

I despise shopping and department stores.

We're not going to have any Canadian department stores any more.

Stores have become theaters, clerks have become actors and the merchandise is the set.

Personal shoppers in big department stores are seriously under-used.

There's a lot of redundancy in these stores. If the idea of this merger is to make these department stores more similar to each other, that won't add value to consumers, ... Consumers want differentiation and variety in products. Price isn't their only consideration.