Foot Locker Inc's third quarter sales increased 5.4%, to $1.28 billion from $1.21 billion in the year-ago quarter. Comparable-store sales increased 8.1% in the third quarter. Excluding the effect of foreign currency fluctuations, total sales for the
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Thomas J. Ryan
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