{"id":9686,"date":"2010-06-03T13:15:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T17:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=9686"},"modified":"2016-09-20T07:13:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T11:13:54","slug":"retail-sales-comps-what-did-your-favorite-stores-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/03\/retail-sales-comps-what-did-your-favorite-stores-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Retail Sales Comps: What Did Your Favorite Store(s) Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of the retail companies are reporting their comparable store sales for May. These are from a year ago period (month vs. year earlier month). So, the &#8220;easy-comps&#8221; that we saw over the last few periods are no longer used as a look-back. Therefore, the amazing rise that showed up for retail during the first half of 2010 will appear much more on a normal trend moving forward.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Below are a few of the reports that came in<!--more-->through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.briefing.com\"><strong>Briefing.com<\/strong><\/a> this morning. Below that there is a comprehensive report that shows monthly changes and a heatmap of the trend.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Stein Mart reports May same store sales -4.5% vs -5.3% two analyst estimate<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Sprint Nextel: Mid-quarter update&#8211;post-paid operating performance tracking ahead of expectations &#8211; FBR Capital<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong> <span style=\"color: #008000;\">Fred&#8217;s reports May same store sales +3.5% vs +2.7%<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Gap Inc reports May same store sales +1.0% vs +0.9%<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Macy&#8217;s reports May same store sales +1.4% vs +0.7%<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>American Eagle reports May same store sales -3% vs -2.2%<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong> BJ&#8217;s Wholesale reports May comparable stores +6.8% vs +6.8%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong> Abercrombie reports May same store sales -3.0% vs -2.0%<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong> Target reports May same store sales +1.3% vs +0.9%<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong> Dillard&#8217;s reports May same store sales -1.0% vs -2.0% single analyst est<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong> Walgreens says May sales increased 5.9%<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong> Aeropostale reports May same store sales +1.0% vs -0.9%<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong> JC Penney reports May same store sales -1.8% vs -0.9%<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong> Saks reports May same store sales +5.8% vs +4.3%<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong> Rite Aid reports May comparable store sales -1.7%<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong> Ross Stores reports May same store sales +5.0% vs +2.9%<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong> Kohl&#8217;s reports May same store sales +3.5% vs +1.5%<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Nordstrom reports May same store sales +3.7% vs +4.8%<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>TJX Cos reports May same store sales +4% vs +2.5%<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Retail-Same-Store-Sales.pdf\">Retail Same Store Sales<\/a>(pdf)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Retail-Same-Store-Sales.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9688 aligncenter\" title=\"retail_comps\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/retail_comps-610x508-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"508\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of the retail companies are reporting their comparable store sales for May. These are from a year ago period (month vs. year earlier month). So, the &#8220;easy-comps&#8221; that we saw over the last few periods are no longer used as a look-back. Therefore, the amazing rise that showed up for retail during the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,42],"tags":[481],"class_list":["post-9686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-markets","category-stocks","tag-economy","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}