Dennis H. Nelson

“Or is it soft across the board in all footwear companies? any any thoughts on that well the the men's we need a strong brand like hey dudes or somebody like that to have huge volume and scenes how it's still a steady business for us but not where we had the big business several years ago where we had kind of exclusive…”

“On the pressures on the guests, we had a strong February-March, and part of that was due to Easter and spring breaks. The spring breaks influenced our business a fair amount, and then April was off a little.”

“We have always taken an opportunistic approach to our opening of stores, and we have been very successful with some of the premium and Tanger outlets. We have looked at new opportunities there where a few years ago, we were not as aggressive on outlets, but we found them to work very well for us.”