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US chain store sales slow after Xmas rush -Redbook Tuesday January 6, 8:56 am ET NEW YORK, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Post-Christmas promotions dragged on U.S. chain store sales, but retailers reported moderate business across broad channels, Redbook said in a report on Tuesday. The pace of sales at major retailers grew by 3.4 percent on a year-over-year basis for the week ended Jan. 3, slowing a touch from 3.9 percent the preceding week, the report said. Sales ended December down 1.0 percent when compared to November. Store traffic remained high, even in the period following Christmas, but tight inventories...

US chain store sales show late Xmas lift - Redbook Tuesday December 30, 8:56 am ET NEW YORK, Dec 30 (Reuters) - U.S. chain store sales picked up markedly last week as shoppers went bargain-hunting, though it was not enough to rescue the month as a whole for retailers, Instinet Research said in its Redbook report on Tuesday. The pace of sales at major retailers grew by 3.9 percent on a year-over-year basis for the week ended Dec. 27, accelerating from a 2.9 percent pace the preceding week, the report said. Still, sales so far in December were down 1.0...

Weather cuts into US chain store sales - Redbook Tuesday December 23, 8:56 am ET NEW YORK, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Potential shoppers ducked the snow and rain by staying home as U.S. chain store sales growth slowed for the second week in a row, Redbook said in its weekly report on Tuesday. The pace of sales at major retailers slowed to 2.9 percent on a year-over-year basis for the week ended Dec. 20, after rising 3.0 percent in the preceding week, the report said. Sales at chain stores were down 1.2 percent so far in December compared with November....

US chain store sales slow ahead of holidays-report Tuesday December 16, 8:56 am ET NEW YORK, Dec 16 (Reuters) - U.S. chain store sales softened as shoppers put off their holiday gift trips until, retailers hope, the next couple of weeks, Instinet Research said in its Redbook report on Tuesday. The pace of sales at major retailers slowed to 3.0 percent on a year-over-year basis for the week ended Dec. 13, after growing 3.2 percent in the preceding week, the report said. Sales at chain stores were down 1.1 percent so far in December compared with November. "Alongside scheduled promotions,...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Monday said December sales would likely reach only the lower end of its forecast as more people delayed holiday shopping or bought plastic gift cards, sending its stock down as much as 2 percent. The gloomier outlook from the world's biggest company cast further doubts on consumer spending in the holiday shopping season and supported ideas that a recovering U.S. economy was helping wealthier households more than lower-income families. Bentonville, Arkansas-based Wal-Mart said the number of shoppers at its stores last week declined from a year earlier, which it...

US chain store sales end Nov. in the red - report Tuesday December 2, 8:56 am ET NEW YORK, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Shoppers feasted on Holiday promotions but stayed mostly away from department stores, leaving U.S. chain store sales mixed, Instinet Research said in its Redbook report on Tuesday. Retail sales ended November down 2.8 percent compared with October. The pace of sales at major retailers grew by 4.4 percent on a year-over-year basis for the week ended Nov. 22, after rising 4.1 percent in the preceding week, the report said. Department stores struggled through the holiday weekend, particularly...

Chain-Store May Sales Estimated Up 2.0% Year-Year . By John McAuley Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--U.S. chain-store sales showed a modest 2.0% year-over-year increase in May, the first month after the Iraq war. Interest in the data is higher than usual as these are the first figures untainted by the war effect. Concern over the prospect and then the conduct of the war had cast a pall over consumer spending in previous months. Economists saw the chain store sales as a bit stronger than expected, but still reflecting a sluggish economic recovery. "I estimate that sales rose...