Where the Money Is 11.18.2014

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🗓️ 18 November 2014

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Black Friday is a little over a week away -- what does this huge sales day mean for retailers? Consumer goods analysts Sean O'Reilly and Nathan Hamilton tell us more.

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0:00.0	We're talking Black Friday on this edition of Where the Money is.
0:04.0	Welcome to the show of Fool's.
0:08.0	I am Nathan Hamilton, of course joined by Consumer Goods Analy,
0:14.0	How's it going Nathan?
0:15.0	It's good.
0:16.0	We're going to be talking about an interesting topic today, huh?
0:18.0	Yeah, and we're obviously talking about Black Friday,
0:20.0	but did you know that there's actually a national holiday next week
0:23.6	called Thanksgiving? Hmm. Isn't that we go shopping at 6 PM at night on Thanksgiving
0:29.6	right? That's what we do. I don't think there's any food involved at all or
0:32.2	family togetherness, nothing.
0:34.0	Well, it's a good segue, actually.
0:36.5	I ran some numbers before our conversation today, and I wanted to see if you could guess what the theme is between these numbers.
0:44.1	Okay, I won't peak.
0:45.1	So, we're looking at Comps for retailers.
0:48.1	So for this set of retailers, average Comps were 0.7% in the most recent quarter.
0:53.8	The second set of retailers, average comps were 7.5%.
0:58.7	Oh, wow.
0:59.5	What do you think the difference is
1:00.5	between those two sets of companies.
1:04.0	One of them sells turkeys and the other doesn't?
1:07.6	No?
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