Can you raise the question of whether the retail industry is finally on the mend Given the picture that's developing here, tentatively at least you can say, yeah. Certainly we can make more upbeat comments on the holiday season.
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We saw softness in apparel and other seasonal merchandise in the latter part of March, ... While higher gas prices pinched tax refund money, consumers have also indicated that they traveled less to shopping centers. The impact from that aspect may not be huge but it was a factor.Michael Niemira
Our analysis of the leading sales indicator, ex-auto, suggests some slowdown now through the fall. So we could see some up and down results for the next few months.
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Sales are going the way they did in the last two years, which was after Thanksgiving, things settled down. But we also see, I think, the power of weather on these numbers.
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The big talk about value we haven't heard in 10 years since the last recession, but it comes back, and that's where we are now. Will department stores pick up again Sure, but it will require the economy to first turn around.
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As summer-like weather warmed up the South and very mild weather extended as far north as Illinois over the last week, consumers got the shopping bug.
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The results for this past week reflect the fallout of Hurricane Katrina as national sales were held back by about one percentage point as stores were closed in the path of the hurricane.
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