same-store sales

Same-store sales are sales at stores open at least a year and are considered a key indicator of a retailer's health.

Hopes for growth in the U. S. , where same-store sales have been declining for more than two years, are dim.

A freeze in consumer spending, abysmal same-store sales, and a swath of retail bankruptcies have taken a serious toll on your local mall.

Same-store sales is a key retail sector indicator that measures sales at stores open a year or more.

Wal-Mart's home furnishings area, which enjoyed its first same-store sales increase in two years, has a tighter focus too.

On Thursday, U. S. retailers reported their worst same-store sales declines for November since at least 1969.

Retailers posted weak August same-store sales -- sales at stores open at least a year -- amid a disappointing back-to-school season.

The company's same-store sales have now fallen for five straight quarters.

Same-store sales in America at McDonald's, the world's largest fast-food company, did not decline throughout the downturn.

The company beat the Street again last week, when it posted its 103rd month of positive global same-store sales.

During the last quarter same-store sales declined, but less sharply.

The company said it expects same-store sales growth between 2 percent to 4 percent in the current month.

In the quarter that ended in March, Coach posted an increase of about 30 per cent in same-store sales in China, he said.

Wal-Mart Stores reported falling same-store sales for the fifth consecutive quarter.

But Pizza Hut same store sales weakened sequentially on a holiday adjusted basis .

Gap shares fell 7 percent. The clothing chain reported an unexpected same-store sales drop as shopper traffic plummeted.

In fact, Walmart's U. S. same-store sales have been on a decline for the past nine quarters.

Announced a number of retailers last month, same-store sales.

Yum's same-store sales in China rose 19% from a year earlier in the fiscal third quarter, which ended Sept.

Such strategies take top management's eye off of improving same store sales year-on-year.

Pizza chains also have been hit, with same-store sales falling 3 percent in the fourth quarter at Domino's and 1 percent at Pizza Hut.

This spring, propelled by a 28 percent increase in same-store sales, first-quarter revenues topped $100 million for the first time.

McDonald's Corp. said strong demand for breakfast items helped lifted global same-store sales 8 percent in July.

Sales at stores open at least 14 months, or same-store sales, fell 4. 9 percent.

Same-store sales at BK have fallen for five successive quarters.

Same-store sales were about flat for the year, but compared with Target's 2. 5% decline, flat is good.

In December, traditionally the busiest month for shopping, same-store sales were 8% lower than in December 2005.

As of May 4, 2011, same-store sales at Sears had dropped every year for a decade.

Annual same-store sales growth on the mainland is growing at 50 per cent.

The bad news: Chinese same-store sales growth was merely 4 per cent.

McDonald's same-store sales in the United States rose 6. 8 percent in February 2009.

As a result, Mr Shaich, who is still active at the company, claims "double digit" growth in same-store sales.

Same-store sales leapt 62 per cent in the six months to September.

U. S. sales edged up 0. 6%, while same-store sales in the U. S. declined 1. 1%.

For the first time in Starbucks' history, same-store sales have fallen.

McDonald's gained 1. 3 percent to $78. 44 after it beat expectations for quarterly profit and same-store sales growth in September.

Sales declines decellerated on September, when same-store sales were 10. 7% lower than the previous year.

In 29 of the past 31 months Gap reported flat or declining same-store sales.

For the quarter ending July 31, Walmart's U. S. same-store sales fell 1. 8%.

For example Abercrombie & Fitch, which has maintained its premium price points, saw same-store sales dip an incredible 28% in May.

Yum said fourth-quarter same-store sales in China were up just 1 percent compared with year-earlier growth of 17 percent.

In the second quarter ended Aug. 1, the toy retailer's US same-store sales fell 7. 2 percent.

The rebound has been strongest in luxury stores: same-store sales at Neiman Marcus, for example, were 11% higher this April than last.

Overall, same-store sales for Yum! outlets in China fell by 6% in the fourth quarter of 2012, versus the same period a year ago