December
Retail Sales
January 08, 1998
Same-St Total Men/General Apparel American Eagle AEOS +18.8% +28.0% Edison Brothers EBS -1.4% -10.4% Filene's Basement BSMT +0.0% +2.0% Gap GPS +10.0% +29.0% Goody's Family GDYS +8.4% +20.1% Gymboree Corp. GYMB +10.0% +36.0% Limited LTD +7.0% +13.0% Men's Wearhouse SUIT +12.3% +32.0% Pacific Sunwear PSUN +11.0% +47.0% Shoe Footstar, Inc. FTS -2.2% +2.7% Footaction FTS -11.0% N/A Meldisco FTS +2.7% N/A Payless ShoeSource PSS +2.2% +7.8% Shoe Carnival SCVL +4.4% +5.4% Women's Apparel AnnTaylor ANN -10.1% -5.5% Cache Inc. CACH +1.0% +4.0% Catherine's Stores CATH +13.1% +10.8% Cato Corp. CACOA +8.0% +8.0% Charming Shoppe CHRS +0.0% -0.7% Chico's FAS CHCS +25.9% +26.4% Claire's Stores CLE +1.0% +13.0% Designs Inc. DESI -15.0% -16% Dress Barn DBRN +6.0% +10.0% Gantos Inc. GTOS -10.0% -9.0% Intimate Brands IBI +11.0% +21.0% MacFrugal's MFI -5.5% -4.2% Paul Harris PAUH -8.0% +9.0% Talbot's TLB -10.9% -4.0% United Retail URGI +17.0% +12.0% Department (National) Federated Dept. FD +1.0% +0.2% May Department MAY +4.8% +6.5% Neiman Marcus NMG +8.8% +8.8% Penney, JC (Dep't) JCP -2.3% -1.3% Penney, JC (All) JCP N/A +8.0% Sears S +4.5% +5.4% Department (Regional) Bon-Ton Stores BONT +7.6% +5.9% Carson, Pirie Scott CRP +3.5% +2.8% Mervyn's DH +6.9% +0.6% Dayton Hudson (Dep't) DH +5.6% +4.1% Dillard Department DDS +2.0% +7.0% Gottschalk's GOT +2.7% +8.1% Kohl's Dept. KSS +11.7% +29.9% Mercantile Stores MST -1.9% -0.5% Proffitt's PFT +7.7% +7.0% Discount/Deep Discount Ames Department AMES +4.5% +5.0% Consolidated Stores CNS +3.3% +9.8% Dayton Hudson (All) DH +6.4% +11.2% Dollar General DG +8.1% +25.0% Family Dollar FDO +7.9% +17.6% K-Mart KM +4.9% +0.2% Ross Stores ROST +7.0% +13.0% Target DH +6.4% +14.7% TJX Cos. TJX +7.0% +11.0% Wal-Mart WMT +7.0% +16.8% Woolworth Z -5.3% -4.3% Club Price/Costco COST +10.0% +12.0% B.J.'s Wholesale Club BJ +7.1% +10.8% Sam's Club (Walmart) WMT +8.1% +9.2% Regional Discount Fred's Inc. FRED +9.2% +32.0% Hill's Stores HDS +2.4% -2.7% ShopKo SKO +7.7% +13.1% Value City VCD +4.6% +5.0% Venture Stores VEN -9.0% -24.2% Bath/Bed/Kitchen/Drug Lechters Inc. LECH N/A N/A CVS/Revco CVS N/A N/A Eckerd Drug JCP +4.8% +54.7% Stroud's STRO N/A N/A Walgreens WAG +8.2% +13.8% Home Repair Hechinger HECHA N/A N/A Lowe's LOW +3.0% +21.0% HomeBase, Inc. HBI N/A N/A Furniture Bombay Co. BBA +1.0% -0.4% Heilig-Meyers Co. HMY +0.0% +48.0 Pier 1 Imports PIR +14.0% +13.8% Consumer Electronics Circuit City CC -1.0% +10.7% Radio Shack TAN +0.0% +1.0% Computer City TAN -1.0% +8.0% Tandy Inc. TAN +1.0% +3.0% Specialty Michael's Stores MIKE +7.0% +8.0% Natural Wonders NATW -2.0% +10.5% Perfumania PRFM +2.5% +17.9% Sharper Image SHRP +6.0% +10.0% Starbucks Corp. SBUX +5.0% +32.0% Sunglass Hut RAYS +3.0% +8.2% West Marine WMAR +4.5% +25.9%