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From full global headquarters, this is Motley Fool Money.

That's the Motley Fool Money radio show. Thanks for being here.

I'm Chris Ellin, joining me in studio this week from Motley Fool 1, Jason Moser,

from Motley Fool Supernova, Matt Argusinger, and for Million Dollar Portfolio,

Ron Gross. Good to see you guys. We will look at the automotive industry

and dip into the Fool Mailbag. Motley Fool CEO Tom Garner will stop by this week

to share what he looks for in investments. And as always, we'll give you an inside look

at the stocks on our radar. But we begin this week with the retail industry.

The troubles continue, particularly when it comes to a parallel retail

Aero Pustal hitting a 10-year low after their latest quarterly results

and express their fourth quarter profit was a misjason. They lowered guidance.

We're going to talk retail writ large, but when you look at a parallel retail,

it is really getting ugly out there. Yeah, I mean, we're seeing sort of the two oppositions

of the spectrum here. And like you mentioned with Express and with Aero Pustal,

I mean, they are seeing some really difficult times right now.

Topline revenues stagnate. The same store sales are falling.

They're guiding for negative same store sales here in the future.

And you know, I mean, they're just not a lot to look forward to these companies

in the coming year. And I think one of the problems is that they have such a small

and sort of fickle market base to begin with. So you look at Aero Pustal,

that's a teen retailer, and Express focuses essentially on folks in that 20 to 30-year-old range.

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