Gottschalks Inc. reported a 7.4% decrease in January comps. Total sales for the four-week month decreased 30.8% to $30.1 million from $43.5 million for the five-week period ended February 3, 2007. Excluding the additional week in January 2007, total sales
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Bon-Ton Posts 1.3% Consolidated Comps Decline
The Bon-Ton Stores, Inc. reported combined comparable store sales for fiscal January decreased 1.3% compared to the prior year period. Carson’s comparable store sales decreased 3.2% and Bon-Ton comparable store sales increased 2.4% compared to the prior y
Wal-Mart Comps Growth Halved
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reported its comp store sales rose .9% in the four-week period ending Feb. 2, 2007, compared to a rise of 1.8% in the year earlier period. Net sales rose 7.9% rise to $27.28 billion for the period and 8.5% to $375.41 billion for the y
Stein Mart’s Comps Slide 2.5%; Forecasts Q4 Loss
Stein Mart, Inc. reported comparable store sales fell 2.5% in January. Total sales fell 19.1% to $81 million from $100.1 million. Management now expects fourth quarter operations will produce a net loss of $(0.28) to $(0.33) per diluted share..
Retail Ventures Sees Comps Slip in January
Retail Ventures, Inc. saw total sales for the thirteen-week fourth quarter decrease 11.9% to $769.9 million from $874.0 million for the fourteen-week period last year. The company's same store sales decreased 0.1% for the comparable thirteen week per
Dillard’s, Inc. Reports 12% Same-store Decline
Dillard’s, Inc. reported sales for the four weeks ended February 2, 2008 fell 12% to $435.3 million from $622.0 million a year ago. Comps fell by the same amount…
BJ’s Posts 7.8% Comp Sales Increase
BJ’s Wholesale Club, Inc. reported that comp store sales in January increased by 7.8%, including a contribution from sales of gasoline of 2.6% and a negative impact from the absence of pharmacy sales of 0.3%. The company said total sales for the month of
Saks Comps Grow 4.1%
Saks Inc. announced that January 2008 comparable store sales increased 4.1% over the prior year. Fiscal fourth quarter comparable store sales increased 9.0% over the prior year, which was consistent with management’s previously disclosed expectation of a
Target’s Comps Slide 1.1%
Target Corp. reported that its net retail sales for the four weeks ended February 2, 2008 increased 5.4 percent compared to the four weeks ended January 27, 2007. On this same equal-week basis, January comparable store sales decreased 1.1 percent. On a fi
J.C. Penney Comps Off 1.9%
J. C. Penney Company, Inc. comparable department store sales decreased 1.9 percent for the four weeks ended Feb. 2, 2008, compared with guidance for a mid-single digit decrease and a 3.6 percent increase in last year’s January period. Total department sto
TJX Posts 3% Comp Gain
The TJX Companies, Inc. reported consolidated comparable store sales for the four-week period ended February 2, 2008, increased 3% over last year. Total sales increased 7% to $1.13 billion from $1.06 billion…
Ross Stores Comps Rose 1% in January
Ross Stores, Inc. reported same-store sales rose 1% for the four weeks ended Feb. 3 and 2% for the 13 weeks ended Feb. 2, 2008 over the comparable periods a year ago. Ross said sales for the four-week period rose 9% to $350 million…
Kohl’s January Comps Slide 8.3%
Kohl’s Corporation reported comparable store sales decreased 8.3% for fiscal January. Total sales for the January fiscal month were $791.4 million, down 20.4% from $994.8 million for the five-week period last year. Total sales for the additional week in f
Neiman Marcus’s Comps Increase 3.3%
Neiman Marcus reported comparable store sales rose 3.3% in January. Total revenues advanced 5.6% to $290 million from $275 million. In the four-week January period, comparable revenues in the Specialty Retail Stores segment, which includes Neiman Marcus S
Macy’s Comps Fall 7.1%
Macy's Inc. said same-store sales fell 7.1 percent in January. Much of that drop, however, was attributed to one fewer week in January 2008 versus January 2007, but same-store sales still missed Macy's estimate of minus 4 to 6 percent…