Revenue per square foot of Aeropostale store space grew at an annual growth rate of 7% from 2007 to 2009.
Total sales for the 14-week period, which include those contributed by new store space, were 3.3% higher than a year earlier.
But the cost of maintaining knowledgeable staff and browsable store space contributes to higher prices, which many consumers are unwilling to pay.
Despite this fall in sales, the company said more store space, cost-cutting and better stock management had enabled it to boost its profits.
Of that amount approximately 10.9 million square feet was leased building space, which includes approximately 4.1 million square feet related to retail store space.
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Anheuser-Busch, which owns the Budweiser brand and dominates the convenience store space with 60% of total volume, saw its total sales drop 4.6% as volume fell 6.5% compared to 2012.
If it is unable to either shift from the big-box retail format to smaller stores, or optimize store space by sub-leasing to other businesses, operating costs will not come down.
"If we couldn't muster good sales during the holiday season, that doesn't say much good about sales going forward and how that will translate into demand" for store space, said Ryan Severino, a senior economist at Reis.
To retail industry analyst Marshal Cohen of market research firm NPD Group, the greatest advantage for Spanx besides the obvious increase in visibility will be the capacity to road-test new products and categories without having to fight for department store space.
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For example, even though pvh first thought it could sell Calvin Klein men's sportswear at 700 to 800 U.S. department store locations with in-store space of 1, 500 square feet, it cautiously launched in just 150 stores, with only 500 square feet each. (Today the line is in 500 stores, averaging 750 square feet.) "As the business rolled out, we ramped up to the appropriate size, " says Emanuel Chirico, who was named chief executive last February.
If Office Depot can open up a retail shop that is also a coworking space, what about a department store opening up space for you to create and customize your own clothing in stores?
Formerly a furniture store, the space in the Bull Yard will be used to help people find work and improve skills.
Ultimately, he decided to take his existing business in a new direction and opened a retail store, event space and art gallery all focused on baseball.
Tomorrow Uniqlo will open a much-anticipated store in the biggest space on Fifth Avenue.
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Next Alimanovic dreams of buying her own larger store instead of renting space.
An enormous 1TB(1) hard drive provides generous space to store content and an optical drive is included for backing up valuable data.
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At this rate, Boeing is going to run out of space to store them so the pressure to fix the 787 batteries is overwhelming.
Second, the big black machine works like a jukebox with space to store 300 discs, so you can put your books back where they belong.
One centre in Canterbury said it was running out of space to store its food, while volunteers in Ashford are opening a new distribution centre.
It provides plenty of space to store and manage important documents and media thanks to a spacious SATA hard disk with up to 500GB of capacity.
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The day after the river outing, Bragdon is back at work in the Metro building, a former Sears department store converted to office space in the Rose Quarter of Portland.
Beyond the heartbreak of spending that much on one item, it can only be worn once, and you need to find space to store it in your 400 sq ft apartment.
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Musicians and DJs: With so many fantastic emerging artists and bands, as well the growing profession and hobby of DJs, people need a safe, infinite space to store all of their favorite tunes.
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Both agree that geology is a strong card: there is thought to be enough space to store billions of tonnes of carbon in empty oil and gas fields alone, and far more in subterranean salt caverns.
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With guidance from Jean Duboc, a veteran of Carrefour's hypermarket division, CBD has reduced construction and operating costs of its hypermarkets by 30% since 2000 by making simple changes like renting out space at store entrances.
As a consequence I have been putting things in on-line repositories and then emailing links to folks I want to get these items but I keep getting close to running out of (free) space to store this stuff.
The new service would give users access to their iTunes libraries from, say, an iPhone or iPad, instead of requiring that the devices be synced by cable with a computer and use space to store the actual files, the people said.
Yet, the entire petabyte of data is backed up, moved to a disaster recovery site, consuming additional power and space used to store it all.
Eighty-five percent of a store is dedicated to selling space.
Be sure to walk all the way to the back of the store, where an outdoor space is covered by ever-changing graffiti, curated by CINIK, a well-respected New York City street artist.
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