They said it...
By Staff -- Gifts & Decorative Accessories, 7/1/2007
“We won't be a part of that future unless we fully comprehend a whole new generation of complicated techniques with equally confusing jargon. … Soon these newer techniques will become outmoded by even higher skilled, more brainsmashing technology. … It will be more demanding, more exasperating, and more fun.”
—Herbert Strawbridge, June 1979
“Nowadays, you're lucky if you are the exclusive distributor on your side of half of the block.”
—Paul Ungrodt, January 1980
“Things have improved over the decade. Gift retailers no longer have to run the gauntlet of sprawling head shop owners in the hallways of gift shows.”
—Phyllis Sweed, February 1980
“I don't think that shopping via computers will do the trick, for the customer or the retailer.”
—Bob Zaring, May 1985
“National discounters have absolutely saturated the market without investing in the local economy … discounters have reduced shopping to a value hunt, as opposed to an art.”
—Barry Richman, January 1986
