...the `Me Generation' of the '80s are kind of looking down and saying, `A few extra pounds isn't so bad,"' said Tom Agan of Kurt Salmon Associates, an Atlanta-based retail consulting firm. "They're more likely to want something good...

...saw more consumers pressed for time and concerned with value, and that really influenced where they shopped," said Tom Agan, a principal at the Atlanta-based retail consulting firm Kurt Salmon Associates. Discount chains were the undisputed...

...market segment," he said. BUT TO DO THAT, Blenheim must capitalize on its down-home roots and authenticity, said Tom Agan of Kurt Salmon Associates, an Atlanta-based retail consultant. Jack Daniels, for instance, used the image of its...