The company, which is already the subject of an SEC probe over allegedly forcing wholesalers to take stock in order to boost its apparent sales, said it may be forced to restate prior-year sales and profits.
Rite Aid reported a 2.3% decline over the prior year period in pharmacy same store sales during October.
While future orders from Western Europe fell by 5%, we think this mainly reflects difficult y-o-y comparisons as the sales in the prior year were driven by Euro Champs and the Olympics.
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Per-store inventory (including merchandise sitting at its warehouses) was 10% lower in the fiscal year ended Jan. 30, 2010 than the prior year, even as same store sales at the combined T.
On a constant-exchange-rate basis that excludes the effect of translating foreign-currency-denominated sales into U.S. dollars, worldwide net sales rose 5 percent, for the period ended Jan. 31, due to growth in all regions and comparable store sales equaled the prior year.
But global sales of Zetia and Vytorin were down 12% and 18% from the prior-year quarter, with growth in other countries making up for falling sales in the U.S. Kenneth Frazier, Merck's global head of human health, said on the conference call that new prescriptions of the drugs had dropped 8% since the heart valve results.
Site visits per day are up 186% and sales have already exceeded any prior year.
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Excluding the unfavorable impact of exchange rates, sales decreased by 2 percent compared to the prior year.
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In November, sales volume increased 52% from a year prior, according to the latest data by the National Association of Realtors.
However, the earnings were down from the prior-year earnings by 19.7% due to sluggish sales and weak margins in hog production business.
On a constant dollar basis, net sales increased 25.5 percent compared to the prior year period.
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And marketing costs are also rising faster than sales, eating up 3% of sales last year, versus 2.8% the prior year.
In February Benioff told analysts that a third of Salesforce's new business is from non-sales automation software, up from 25% the year prior.
Sales to retailers were off 1% in the U.S., helping keep worldwide sales growth to just 1.8% over the prior year, less than expected.
In the first nine months of 2012, Asia and Latin America combined contributed 12% to its total sales, compared to 10.4% in the year prior to that.
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Sales were up 21% and earnings up 17% over the prior year.
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In the current year the company indicated that 68% of Marketplace sales were for fixed price merchandise compared to 64% in the prior year.
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Online sales for the week increased 14 percent versus the same period of the prior year.
Prior to that merchandise sales respectfully lingered at the bottom of the top 10 for a year and a half.
It is quite revealing to see the 2012 global sales numbers and the value brought by products introduced in or prior to the year 2000.
Condo sales in the Washington-area market increased nearly 30% from the prior year, while prices of new units climbed 3.7%, according to Delta Associates, a real-estate research and consulting firm.
The company reported that comparable store sales in the U.S. declined 1.8% from the prior year.
Limited Brands delivered comparable-store sales growth of 5% during the quarter, compared with 9% in the prior year.
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Of particular interest for a retail company, same-store sales rose 4.1% in the recent quarter, up from a prior-year gain of 1%.
The prior uptrend was broken in early 2008, when retail sales topped out by the middle of the year (keep in mind, the economy was then solidly in a recession).
The Company achieved gross margin on sales of 50.5 percent, compared to 50.4 percent in the prior fiscal year.
The MasterCard Advisors SpendingPulse said that sales in the two months prior to Christmas were higher by 0.7 percent versus last year, while analysts had expected growth of 3 to 4 percent.
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But the margins suck: operating income equal to 5.1% of sales during the fiscal year ended January 31, barely up from 5.0% the prior two years.
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Same store sales increased 8.1% compared to an increase of 1.2% for the prior-year period.
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At constant exchange rates, Canadian Fine Jewelry brands comparable store sales increased 1.7 percent, compared to an increase of 10.2 percent in the prior year period.
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