He stated that he drew the pilot chapter so that it would appeal to himself. When Ohba was deciding on the plot, he said, he visualized the panels while relaxing on his bed, drinking tea, or walking around his house. Often the original draft was too long and needed to be refined in order to finalize the desired “tempo” and “flow”.
We’ve got a fortunate position to be looking at the business on the heels of just exceptional growth. And that creates a lot of opportunity for us to rebuild process against a business that’s substantially bigger than it was a few years ago. I mean, I’ll go back to some of the syndicated data that we’ve been looking at.
Consumers are strained as they work to support their family’s day-to-day needs while looking for the occasional affordable luxury, prepping for the changing seasons, and planning for the holidays. It’s a difficult balance to strike and getting increasingly difficult each week as more and more of their household budget goes toward the needs of the family, which limits the amount available for discretionary purchases. That strength offset persistent softness in our discretionary categories, which worsened at the end of the quarter.
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You took a lot of markdowns, and some inventory was released to the market. Maybe for Christina and maybe, Brian, chime in here. I know it’s early, but with the kind of shift in trends you’re seeing, is there any more you can tell us maybe about the income demographic dissecting of your guests? Has there been any, you know, changes in patterns among that? You know, so, for example, Walmart obviously called out yesterday that they’re seeing more of these $100,000-plus people, you know, trading into Walmart. It comes through in everyday price, it comes through in our owned brand assortment, it comes through in our promotions, and it comes through our accessibility with our great RedCard, our free loyalty programs, and the solutions in aggregate.
Obata said that when he took a few extra days to color the pages, this “messed with the schedule”. In contrast, the writer took three or four days to create a chapter on some occasions, while on others he took a month. Obata said that his schedule remained consistent except when he had to create color pages. The Death Note concept derived from a rather general concept involving Shinigami and “specific rules”. Author Tsugumi Ohba wanted to create a suspense series because the genre had few suspense series available to the public.
So, my first question is, can you talk about how you’re looking at your business from a planning perspective and how far the down low single-digit quota day-to-day trend is relative to your internal plan? Said another way, we knew that holiday was pulled forward last year, given early sort of panic buying. As you think about the past month, is the three-year trend also deteriorating?
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But now, you’re also saying that you need to cut $2 billion to $3 billion in cost to support your profitability over the next few years, which, in a way, undermines the idea that you can get the margin back that you lost. So, can you size in aggregate how much you think is recapturable? Is it $2 billion to $3 billion and you add another $2 billion to $3 billion on that? You’re playing with a pool of savings that’s really $46 billion over the next couple of years. It gives us the best position to be able to tell the consumer where we’re at and continue to drive that unit share performance that we were pleased to see in the third quarter.