. >> speaking of retail, still to come this morning, ceo kevin mansell. we'll hear his plan for growing the retailer and battling amazon we'll get to harley with a pretty deep production guidance cuts, some misses in the furniture business take a look at the futures more "squawk on the street." ♪ what should i watch? show me sports. it's so fluffy! look at that fluffy unicorn! he's so fluffy i'm gonna die! your voice is awesome. the x1 voice remote. xfinity. the future of awesome. >>> some pictures to show you. alibaba jack ma hosting the u.s./china business summit in washington we'll monitor that the mission here, they say, is to discuss economic issues of mutual importance to both countries. >> it's so interesting any minute we're waiting for the steel tariffs on making it a national defense industry asset. >> jack ma has kind of reversed things and is seeking to empower the small and medium sized business here in the u.s. that wants to sell to the chinese consumer using the alibaba platform and he also got a nice new haircut. >> yeah, he did get a hair

we spoke with kevin manziel. --mansell. >> we will occasionally close stores.be lease obligation change and we close the store. i don't want to give the impression that we never close a store, but more generally, i think the fact that we leverage ,ur stores for on the channel or fulfill out of our stores customers online orders, we think that stores are really, really important. across a large platform the country, its free will dispersed, so we are represented everywhere. believe in the future of stores, and i think if customers move even more to a buy it now and get it now mentality, and they are moving more that way, stores are naturally going to be more important, not less important. even this year, we are up to about 25% of the online orders are fulfilled out of our stores. julia: you think that will be enough to counter falling traffic, declining same-store sales as you look forward over the next few years. >> combined with other strategies -- i think i'll longer-term basis, we don't really see traffic declines consistently over time. there are strategies