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Top-Selling Mass Market Categories * For the 52 weeks ended November 2, 2008 TOTAL FDM FDM EXCLUDING EXCLUD. WAL-MART WAL- PANEL DOLLAR % MART CATEGORY SALES CHANGE RANK Carbonated Beverages [...]

CHAIN PERFORMANCE CONVENIENCE STORES CHAIN PERFORMANCE 2007 % Fiscal Sales (000) Change Sales Year Merchandise Merchandise Company End Only Only Casey's General Store 4/30/08 $942,659 10.5% The Pantry 9/27/07 1,575,900 [...]

Top-Selling Mass Market Categories * For the 52 weeks ended November 5, 2006 TOTAL FDM FDM EXCLUD. EXCLUDING WAL-MART % WAL-MART CATEGORY PANEL DOLLAR SALES CHANGE RANK Carbonated Beverages $13,331,440,000 [...]

The securities of various grocery stores in United States are analyzed on the basis of information available as of March, 2005. The stocks of this sector are expected to perform well in future, as most of the grocery stores are building on the profit recovery.

ACCOUNTING FOR ALMOST 48% of all home accents sales last year, the top 50 retailers rang up $30.8 billion in home accent sales in 2004, up 6.2% from 2003. The [...]

American Party storeowners have brisk business during the month long Christmas celebrations. Accessories, decoration items, wine, cocktails are most important sale items.

It was a long, cold winter in many parts of the country, literally and figuratively. At home, we waited for the economy to rebound. The war in Iraq was further [...]

The battle for the bunged up noses of Britain looks set to be fiercer than ever this year. Following last month's warnings that Britain is facing one of the worst [...]

Independent retailers are selling more, but profit margins have slipped, according to this year's poll of the Top 50 Independent Retailers. Fierce competition from the multiples, soaring energy costs and [...]

As storms go, this one was pretty close to perfection. War in Iraq, the outbreak of SARS in Toronto, mad cow disease, forest fires, floods and an economic slowdown in [...]

Byline: ARNOLD J. KARR and DAVID MOIN More Caution Than Optimism in Stores' Q4 Views Retailers reporting third-quarter sales are seeing some hopeful signs for holiday, but they're being unusually [...]

November sales at the nation's food and beverage stores rose 4.1% from a year earlier, the largest gain since July, certainly aided by Thanksgiving Day sales which coincided with Hanukah [...]

B-t-s Shoppers Help to Lift Retail Sales in July By KRISTI ELLIS WASHINGTON Consumers heading into the back-to-school season stepped up their purchases of apparel and accessories in July as [...]

Comps See Late-June Pickup By ARNOLD J. KARR While June comp results were mixed among reporting retailers, there was certainly no swoon. Stores overcame a slow start and most ended [...]

LATEST FINANCIAL REPORTS (000 OMITTED) Current % Change Year Year Ago BIG LOTS, INC. (Columbus, OH) 13-Wks. To May 4: Sales: $1,311,388 1.3% Net Income: $32,333 -20.6% BOB EVANS FARMS, [...]

Byline: EVAN CLARK, WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM VICKI M. YOUNG AND KRISTI ELLIS Retail Stocks Gain Despite Confidence Hit Retail stocks rose 1.6 percent Tuesday as increasing optimism that Greece would [...]

The impact of a government income management program on store sales is examined. The studies have shown that income management independent of the government stimulus payment has no beneficial effect on tobacco and cigarette sales, soft drink or fruit and vegetable sales.

Much-improved monthly retail sales results reported last week pointed in part to a warming economic recovery, observers said. Shoppers replenishing following winter storms in the East, as well as an [...]

Staff New York -Same-store sales rose 1.9% during the third week of February after a 1.8% gain the previous week, the Johnson Redbook reported last week. Month-over-month saw a 1.6% [...]

Although the surge in fourth-quarter imports offered some hope U.S. retailers might be expecting consumers to open their pocketbooks again, the reality was retailers had drawn down inventories so far [...]

Retailers should be spending the majority of the their time, effort and promotional dollars courting their top-spending, loyal customers, claims William Young, vice president of sales and marketing for CONCEPT [...]

Snow Challenges Northeast Retailers Retailers are expected to extend their shopping hours and step up promotions over the next few days in order to recoup some of the shopper traffic [...]

Ulta Profit Surges 68.6 Percent Ulta salon, cosmetics & Fragrance Inc. posted third-quarter earnings growth of 68.6 percent, a sign that the beauty retailer's strategy of selling mass and prestige [...]

No Feast in November: Comp-Store Sales Fall Even With Black Friday Black friday couldn't take the blues out of November. Retailers reporting same-store sales for the month Thursday generally had [...]

The numbers are in, and it looks like the ghost of Christmas 2009's online shopping future will be a somewhat jolly soul--or maybe not at least as grim as feared. [...]

Black Friday's Verdict: Stores in Sigh of Relief But Caution Still Reigns Still stressed, but not panicked. That's the retail state of mind following the Black Friday weekend, which saw [...]

Retail Outlook Begins to Brighten NEW YORK Could the end of the doldrums be in sight? The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 10,000 last Wednesday retaking ground not seen [...]

E-tail Grows as Retail Still Struggles While retail reels, E-tail is doing even better than expected, according to a report due out today from the National Retail Federation. Of 164 [...]

Room for Growth in China's Smaller Cities HONG KONG Investment organizations and multinational companies are plotting their expansion in China's third- and fourth-tier cities, according to a new report from [...]

Retail Stocks Down 3.4% for Week Even if the economy has put the worst recession in generations in the rear-view mirror, signposts pointing to a long, slow recovery with little [...]

Staff New York- Getting a boost in the run-up to Labor Day, same-store sales during the first week of September were slightly better (up 0.2%) than August, the Johnson Redbook [...]

Chinese Economic Concerns Put Strain on Global Markets Signs China is reining in lending and tempering its economic growth sparked a sell-off in Shanghai that weighed on global stock markets [...]

The Christmas Spirit: Retailers Bring Down Expectations, Prices As they trudge through the back-to-school season, retailers don't see much of a break for holiday. The latest predictions call for holiday [...]

No July Celebrations: Comp Sales Fall Again, Stores See Hope Ahead Most retailers probably are happy to have July, and, in fact, their second quarters, behind them. The anxiety-building trend [...]

Retail Stocks Ride Rally Retail stocks headed into the final week of the fiscal second quarter on a high note. Despite a 0.3 percent drop on Friday, the S&P Retail [...]

European Retailers Try to Stir Up Spending PARIS As European economies show signs the worst of the recession could be over, should fashion retailers look forward to improved sales? Not [...]

Comps Scorecard: A High-Low Affair The trend in same-store sales thawed slightly last month, but upper-end retailers didn't feel the warmth. Retailers on Thursday generally reported lower comparable-store sales for [...]

Facing a prolonged recession, many shoppers have put the brakes on their spending, focusing on necessities and eschewing luxuries. So, at first glance, it might seem unusual that refrigerated, packaged [...]

WASHINGTON - National Retail Federation here last week said it projects a 0.5% decline in retail sales for 2009, noting that consumer spending could increase in the second half of [...]

On the heels of 'only' a 6.2% increase in sales during September, warehouse clubs and supercentres boosted sales 8.9% in October versus a year earlier, according to the CENSUS BUREAU's [...]

A British Retail Consortium-KPMG retail survey has revealed that total UK retail sales have fallen in consecutive months for the first time in 13 years. Sales in November were down […]