Retailers often use the Labor Day weekend for back-to-school sales.

The Governor said yesterday that he supported another weeklong amnesty in late summer, for back-to-school sales.

For young people on vacation, the annual blitz of back-to-school sales is a rude reminder that the endless summer always ends too soon.

And the association is reporting strong back-to-school sales.

In addition, some department stores reported slow back-to-school sales of clothing and supplies.

By late August, back-to-school sales have lured the families home.

So far, retail analysts say, soaring gas prices are not putting much of a dent in back-to-school sales.

First, back-to-school sales, which the company said had built consistently through the month previously, failed to expand in August.

One was for back-to-school sales the first weekend in August, but sometimes starting at the end of July.

Soon it could all end in a hostile bid to merge Christmas and back-to-school sales.