Richard Baker
speaker
1,143 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 7 Jul
Richard Baker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So now they're like, Richard, we understand you made a deal with Target for Canada, for Zellers.
They were so nice and so gracious.
We screwed up.
It's our fault, but you can't sell it to Target.
We are going to send a team to Westchester, to your office, and we'll get a purchase agreement signed by the end of the weekend, and we'll pay you an extra $100 million.
So I said, you're my guys.
I can't believe we're sitting in this position, but I can't do it.
And, you know, sometimes in life, you know, character and integrity, a hundred million, I don't know what would happen if they had said 200 million, but for 100 million, I had, I was able to have character and integrity for a hundred million dollars.
And, um, uh, and, uh, I said, I'm sorry.
I shook hands with the nice people from Minnesota and, uh,
If their board turns it down on Monday, I'll be back to you and we'll make whatever deal that you want to make, but I have to go with this deal.
So they said, we understand.
No worries.
You know, sorry, we screwed up.
They were really gracious.
So by Monday target approved the deal, they signed the papers and they wired me $900 million in cash the next day.
And my father who had been very grumpy since writing his share of the $25 million check was all smiles.
Never said another, uh, never said another aggravated thing to me again for the rest of his entire life.
And, um, everyone was very happy.
It was a great win.
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