Sentences with phrase «holiday sales period»

ICSC projects that during the November / December 2008 holiday sales period, same - store sales in the U.S. will show only a 1.0 percent gain.

While we may have made this decision too late to impact Saving Grace in the Hot New Releases category, we aim to interest buyers leading up to the critical holiday sales period.

The WSJ has a new report that indicates Barnes and Noble's Nook line has faced a rather abysmal holiday sales period, with hardware down 55 % from 2013.

Not exact matches

After pulling back on its holiday season hiring in anticipation of weaker sales this year, Macy's (m) said on Friday it will hire another 7,000 temporary workers, citing a strong number of shopper visits so far this Christmas period.

We know retail ecommerce is expected to be strong — eMarketer estimates the core holiday November - through - December period will continue its multi-year trend of double - digit growth to bring $ 79.4 billion in sales, an increase of 13.9 percent from the same time in 2014.

But during the call with shareholders and analysts, Amazon chief financial officer Brian Olsavksy reiterated a claim from the earnings release that unit sales grew nine times during the holiday period compared to the year prior's numbers.

While software sales were down, the release of several blockbuster consoles over the holidays — including the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 — resulted in a 99.8 percent increase in hardware sales during the period.

«The higher percentage of sales in the hardware category resulted in better than expected comps, but lower gross margin dollars during the holiday selling period,» said GameStop's chief financial officer, Rob Lloyd.

GameStop lowered its fourth - quarter and full - year earnings guidance after suffering declines in video - game sales during the holiday period.

The company won't report its holiday season performance until next month, but awful sales reports from rivals Macy's (m) and Kohl's (kss) suggest department stores had a tough Christmas period performance.

In its most recent sales update, issued last week, the company said it was «pleased with its performance for the holiday period, showing continued progress in its turnaround efforts.»

Same - store sales at Eddie Bauer were up 8 percent for the holiday period between Black Friday and New Year's Eve, and are up 6 percent year - to - date, according to one of the sources.

Faced with wary shoppers and a shorter holiday season, retailers are piling on deals as they jockey for market share during the most important sales period of the year.

The holiday selling season is right around the corner, and despite increased competition from large retailers and a shorter period between Thanksgiving and Christmas, record - breaking ecommerce sales are expected for small and medium retailers.

This bonanza holds true for real estate as well, as the Golden Week holiday is a prime sales season when Chinese traditionally leverage the week - long holiday to property hunt, and is also a period that Chinese developers capitalise on to market new real estate projects.

Sales went up 120 % in the third quarter vs. that period last year, and Ellison said he expects sales to continue being strong in the holiday season «primarily because we have a great credit offering.&rSales went up 120 % in the third quarter vs. that period last year, and Ellison said he expects sales to continue being strong in the holiday season «primarily because we have a great credit offering.&rsales to continue being strong in the holiday season «primarily because we have a great credit offering.»

Earlier this week, the chain reported a 1.3 % drop in same - store sales during the crucial November and December holiday period and lowered its earnings forecast for the year.

Their passionate opposition to the proposed introduction of 20 % VAT on the sales of caravan holiday homes convinced the Government to extend the formal consultation period deadline.

The AP reports an increase on the sales tax on clothing might be in the offing, coupled with three or four tax - free clothes shopping periods each year — including before school begins in the fall and at the December holidays.

Note: Orders placed during the summer and winter sale periods may take up to nine working days, due to high demand, seasonal events and bank holidays.

Now that the holiday period has started, Nintendo 3DS sales will remain strong until the first week of 2017.

Sales were already down as of June, but it looks like the Summer holiday period didn't boost sales enough to avoid a Sales were already down as of June, but it looks like the Summer holiday period didn't boost sales enough to avoid a sales enough to avoid a drop.

Dengeki expects this increase in sales and the momentum from the Summer holiday period to carry on in September.

A note about Splatoon: by adding all retail sales (until September 13th) and digital sales (until August 30th) together, we can see that the game has already sold 762 569 copies... and there's still three months before the beginning of the holiday period.

During that week, Software sales topped 1 900 000 units, and Hardware sales topped 344 000 units, which is 132.18 % and 134.04 % of Week 50 sales respectively: another noticeable increase quite obviously attributed to the holiday period.

In this post, you will find additional sales data for Week 52, 2017 from Media Create and Dengeki, including Day 1 sell - through, Dengeki's Top 50, Mario Party: The Top 100's debut, sales for the holiday period, sales for 2017 as a whole, and more!

The company blamed most of the Nook downturn on poor device sales over the holiday period.

That announcement came as Pearson announced a claimed strong holiday sales for its Kindle Fire HD, Kindle Fire, Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle tablets, which held the top four spots on the Amazon worldwide best seller charts during the period.

We're still waiting to hear from specific companies like Amazon with their latest (non --RRB- numbers on how well their Kindle line of devices has sold over this holiday period, and from the various analysts that track overall device sales and shipments (but we've had a few indications that sales will be strong).

Digital content sales were $ 21.3 million and device and accessory sales were $ 19.9 million for the holiday period.

B&N just released sales figures for the nine - week holiday period ending December 29, 2012.

However, right after I posted this, B&N announced: «Based on preliminary sales results to date in the holiday period and sales trends, the Company expects its holiday sales results will be below expectations and that the NOOK business will not meet the Company's prior projection for fiscal year 2013.»

Same - store sales fell 6.4 % for the holiday period, while online sales dropped 4.5 percent.

When I combined holidays with multiple free books, the result was a large volume of downloads with actual sales following the free period.

Comparable store sales also declined 6.4 % for the holiday period, while online sales declined 4.5 % and most importantly book sales declined by 4 %.

Barnes and Noble has announced that total sales for the holiday period were $ 953 million, declining 6.4 % as compared to the prior year.

Overall sales during the holiday period fell 10.9 percent at bookstores and online compared with a year ago.

As the holiday gift buying season fades behind us we already know that Amazon had yet another banner sales period.

The NOOK segment (including digital content, devices and accessories), had sales of $ 56 million for the nine - week holiday period, decreasing 55.4 % as compared to a year ago.

Bookseller Barnes & Noble is considering spinning off its Nook digital business to help it grow, following strong growth in sales of the Nook reader and tablet and digital content in the nine - week holiday period ending Dec. 31.

The online retail giant has a global sales target of 4 million units, with 700,000 - 800,000 units shipping monthly, and it hopes to get its products in customer hands during the peak sales period of the year — just before Thanksgiving and the holidays.

Digital content sales were $ 36.5 million for the holiday period, a decline of 27.3 % compared to a year ago due to lower device unit sales and lower average selling prices.

Last year, Barnes & Noble's holiday results were disappointing, as sales from bookstores and BN.com decreased 10.9 percent, to $ 1.2 billion, from the comparable nine - week holiday period in 2011.

On Thursday, Barnes & Noble, the nation's last remaining major bookstore chain, said that it had steep sales declines in its digital division during the holiday period, continuing a steady decline for a unit that was once the centerpiece of its growth strategy.

Device and accessories sales were $ 88.7 million for the holiday period, a decrease of 66.7 % from a year ago, due to lower unit selling volume and lower average selling prices.

The shocking drop in digital content sells in the holiday period is blamed on two things, lower device sales and lower average selling prices.

What it does note are relative momentum figures such as these from last month, when it noted that the first traditional sales weekend of the holiday period — kicked off by Black Friday — saw it sell the most Kindle devices ever.

Every now and then Amazon India brings in a limited period sale timed with festivals or long weekend holidays or national holidays in India.

In other words, Kindle 3 has been more popular during its first three - month sales period than the Kindle 2 was during the 2009 holiday season.

Retail sales at Barnes & Noble bookstores and from its website, BN.com, declined 10.9 % from the comparable holiday period a year earlier.