"I'm in the retail business, not the circus business."
"I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis's and Owen Owen, only for a short time, and I found department stores personally difficult."
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Source: Politics Live blog with Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com.
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