The ActionWatch Retail Panel is finally seeing comps in the single digits. September sales for all categories tracked by ActionWatch were only down 8.3% compared to the same month last year. Take a look at some of the reasons behind September’s results, including a detailed same-store, year-over-year chart and graph.
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November 02 2009 |
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Sales of men’s/boys’ woven shirts were up nearly 15% during August compared to the same month last year, and women’s skirts also saw another large year-over-year increase in August, but overall sales of all product categories were down almost 20% in August compared to the same month last year. More in-depth analysis, including a Year-Over-Year graph for August 2009 comp sales, can be found here.
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September 30 2009 |
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Stores on the ActionWatch Retail Panel who have been reporting for at least a year showed the lowest sales declines of 2009 to date in July. It is encouraging that declines in the second quarter were lower than in the first, and now the first month of the third quarter was better than any of the previous months of the year.
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August 31 2009 |
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Core stores on the ActionWatch Retail Panel report that both hardgoods and footwear categories experienced lower comp sales declines in June compared to the previous month. Get the details here.
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July 31 2009 |
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Core stores on the ActionWatch Retail Panel saw lower comp sales declines in May than they experienced in the first quarter. While we cannot confirm with certainty that the core retail channel has found a bottom, May’s numbers provide increasing evidence that this may be the case.
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July 01 2009 |
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April same-store sales for the core shops on the ActionWatch Retail Panel showed the best year-over-year numbers we’ve seen so far in 2009.
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Although apparel sales were almost 23% lower in Q1 2009 compared to last year’s first quarter, apparel inventory levels were higher than last year, suggesting that core channel retailers were not able to adjust their apparel inventories fast enough to meet reduced demand levels.
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May 19 2009 |
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Although fleece sales were down compared to 2007, they still remained a significant portion of sales during holiday 2008, particularly for women’s apparel. Check out the stats right here.
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April 29 2009 |
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Retailers in the ActionWatch same-store data set experienced surf/skate product revenues down 19.4% in February compared to the same month last year.
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April 02 2009 |
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The boardshorts product class was the third-highest volume apparel class in the ActionWatch Retail Panel during the latest twelve-month period tracked (following fleece tops and T-shirts). Read more here.
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October 09 2008 |
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