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The Nordstrom Conundrum

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4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Target’s digital sales are on the rise, but not enough for Wall Street’s liking. Motley Fool Asset Management’s Bill Barker analyzes the retail landscape and the Nordstrom family’s latest attempt to take the company private. Plus we dip into the Fool Mailbag and discuss the Fox Network’s aggressive goals for advertising reduction. (Tangents include our upcoming listener meet-up in Austin, real-life courtrooms vs. TV courtrooms, and more.)

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Welcome to Market Foolery.

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I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today for Motley Fool Asset

0:26.1

Management. Bill Parker, how are you? I'm well, thank you. You're looking dapper. I know this is an audio podcast, but you're looking you you're looking dapper I know this is an audio podcast but you're

0:33.7

looking you're looking like you have frankly far more important things to do

0:38.0

than to be sitting in the studio with me no not more important, just after I, after work I'm going to a CFA thing and I just, I like to look like I might, you know, it's kind of like when I go to my kids school. I don't know if you feel the same thing.

0:55.6

I like to look like I might be employed when I show up at their school.

1:00.9

That's something I think I've gotten slightly better at over time, but early in my parent career

1:09.0

going to schools, I didn't do a good enough job on that. Yeah, and so did your kids get teased?

1:14.0

I don't know that they got teased.

1:17.0

I mean they got teased but probably not because of that.

1:20.0

We got retail news to get to.

1:23.0

Your dad doesn't have a job.

1:25.0

Look at him.

1:27.0

No, no, I think to the extent that my job ever came up in conversations that my kids had, a lot of times it was like, he does what?

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