Retailers Post Mediocre Holiday Sales
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Lucinda Antal, of Liverpool, England, right, tests lipstick shades on her hand at the Face store in New York Sunday Nov. 28, 2004, assissted by salesperson David Kalahiki.
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The holiday shopping season began with a surge in spending, but consumers faded by the end of the long Thanksgiving weekend and many retailers were facing decent but hardly impressive sales.
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The holiday shopping season got off to a modest start after bargain-hunters jammed malls on Friday for early bird specials but did less buying the rest of the weekend after the sales ended.
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U.S. chain store sales fell in the latest week mostly because the imperfect nature of adjusting for seasonality more so than consumers lack of shopping, a report said on Tuesday.
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U.S. stocks ended lower on Tuesday,  after data indicated that the critical holiday shopping season  got off to a sluggish start for retailers.
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The outlook for the holiday season dimmed Thursday as the nation&#39;s retailers reported disappointing sales for November following an uninspiring Thanksgiving weekend.
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Early holiday sales reports are weak, with Target Corp., the nation's No.2 retailer, warning that its sales may have fallen in December.
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Shoppers were spending money up until the last minute, but holiday sales were nevertheless a disappointment. So says MasterCard Advisors' SpendingPulse, a report that tracks retail sales nationally.
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U.S. specialty apparel retailers saw  sales rise 3.6 percent in holiday shopping, at the lower-end of  expectations, according to data released on Tuesday by  SpendingPulse.
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Chain store retail sales continue to fall during the week following the Thanksgiving holiday, a retail report said on Tuesday.
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Crumbling consumer confidence and slumping home sales could prove to be a bad combination for retailers, and for the broader economy going into the holiday shopping season
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Sales of womenâs clothing, a traditional pillar of the holiday shopping season, are unusually weak so far this year, according to a major credit card company.
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Sales at U.S. retailers fell 0.4  percent in December and were less vigorous in November than  previously thought, according to a government report on Tuesday  that implied costlier energy and slumping housing prices were  taking a toll on consumers.
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U.S. shoppers came out in droves in  November, but warm and wet weather, combined with steep holiday  discounts, prompted less-than-stellar sales at many chains,  retailers said on Thursday.
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U.S. retailers posted weak sales growth in December, as snow storms, discounts and economic uncertainty conspired to make the 2007 holiday shopping season the worst in 5 years.
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U.S. chain store sales fell in the  latest week mostly because the imperfect nature of adjusting  for seasonality more so than consumers lack of shopping, a  report said on Tuesday.
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Many U.S. retailers are expected to report disappointing December sales later this week, hurt by everything from the challenging economy to unfavorable weather to the calendar, which shifted more holiday sales to November.