Can you raise the question of whether the retail industry is finally on the mend? Given the picture that's developing here, tentatively at least you can say, yeah. Certainly we can make more upbeat comments on the holiday season.

A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture.

We're one of the only retail businesses where the price is preprinted. You can't raise prices because the price is on the book, and you certainly can't raise it when the other guy is discounting it.

Wow, wow, wow, ... We saw widespread gains across categories last month. Looking at the ex-auto component, the (favorable) comparisons are reaching back all the way to March 2000, prior to the slowdown at the peak of the economic recovery.

It was an OK year, not a boom, not a bust.

[Mix 'n match season for apparel :] Apparel is clearly a mixed bag, ... We have some very good and very weak performers.