she's jessica bourne, senior retail analyst at merchant forecast, welcome. we gave you an assignment today. we're talking about all this carnage in retail, that department stores are dying, the retailers are dying, and we asked you to come up with your picks in those four categories. department stores, off-price, discounters, and online. let's start with your department store choice. who is it? >> great. i would like to nominate nordstrom as my pick. if you look at nordstrom compared to their peers, nordstrom is not overstored. what i mean by that is if you compare them to a jcpenney or a macy's that have a significant store base, many times in malls that aren't performing up to their recent highs of the last five to ten years, nordstrom has a very much smaller store base. and i think that helps mitigate some of the risk of slow-down in traffic in the malls. number two, they have an off-price concept called motor strom rack and that has been a big driver of camps for them allowing an outlook structure in a sense, to send some of their underperforming items t