A weekly measure of sales at chain stores, discounters, and department stores. It is a less consistent indicator of retail sales than the weekly ICSC index. It is also calculated differently than other indicators. For instance, figures for the first week of the month are compared with the average for the entire previous month. When two weeks are available, then these are compared with the average for the previous month, and so on. It might be more useful to compare year-over-year figures since these are indeed compared to the comparable week a year ago. This index is correlated with the general merchandise portion of retail sales covering only about 10 percent of total retail sales. Why Investors Care
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Highlights
Cooling temperatures are giving a lift to seasonal sales, making for solid enough year-on-year same-store sales growth of 2.4 percent according to Redbook's weekly tally which compares with 2.7 percent posted earlier this morning from ICSC-UBS. These results however won't affect expectations for tomorrow's retail sales report for October, a month when retailers said unseasonably warm weather hurt demand for seasonal goods.
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