Sentences with phrase «percent during the holiday period»

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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.

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

To put this in context, the index stood at just 72.4 during the same period in 2013, a year in which holiday sales increased by 3.8 percent.

The average number of traffic - related deaths over the last six Thanksgiving holiday weekends was more than 10 percent higher than the number of fatalities during similar non-holiday periods.

Thanksgiving is actually a bigger holiday travel period than Christmas and New Year's, with travel destinations more than 50 miles away increasing by 54 percent over Thanksgiving weekend, and only 23 percent during Christmas and New Year's.

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.