Sales of Womenâs Clothes, a Holiday Pillar, Are Weak
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Spending on womenâs apparel so far this year is proving disastrously weak, an ominous signal for the holiday shopping season.
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LOS ANGELES - Toy makers and major retailers are bracing for potentially weak Christmas sales this year amid concerns that consumers, many squeezed by skyrocketing gas prices or uneasiness over the economy, will spend less on holiday shopping.    On Monday, No...
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NEW YORK -- With a weak back-to-school season behind them, the nation's retailers are focused on the holidays and what steps they need to take to get consumers excited about shopping again. That could mean some quick merchandise changes and more aggressive discounting than they originally planned.
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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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Women's apparel retailers AnnTaylor Stores Corp  and Chico's FAS Inc  posted worse-than-expected sales in December, continuing a months-long trend of disappointment in that corner of the retail universe.
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The outlook for the holiday season dimmed yesterday as several of the nation&#39;s large retailers reported disappointing sales for November, which included an uninspiring Thanksgiving weekend, The Associated Press reports.
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Online sales of holiday stalwarts like jewelry, watches and flowers have dropped from last yearâs levels, while sales of more practical items like furniture and appliances have climbed.
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Tiffanyâs holiday slowdown was unexpected and sent jitters through the luxury-goods industry, which had seemed invulnerable, even as the housing market began to sputter.
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NEW YORK -- The first holiday shopping weekend of the year may have started with a bang, but it ended with a whimper, evidence from two groups that track sales showed yesterday.
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Three pillars of the economy &#151; consumer confidence, orders for manufactured goods and home prices &#151; showed surprising cracks on Tuesday, flashing signals that growth may slow more heading into the important holiday shopping season.
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Some surveys find that as of last weekend, consumers had completed less than 15 percent of their holiday shopping.
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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, if the labor market contracts further and chokes off spending, economic data showed Tuesday.
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Shoe sales have jumped this holiday season, but they haven't been enough to kick up holiday sales growth overall, according to a MasterCard Advisors survey.
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Women&#39;s clothing retailer Christopher &amp; Banks Corp. said Thursday that sales at stores open at least one year, or same-store sales, declined 7 percent during the month of December.
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Seemingly contradictory results emerge as the holiday shopping season begins.
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Business & money: Marks & Spencer's womenswear business has lost market share in the weeks since Christmas as shoppers' love affair with Twiggy fizzles out
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When the largest retailer in the world slashes its sales growth estimate during the holiday shopping season, it&#39;s time to sit up and take notice.