Rare and/or functional objects were introduced into the world by stores and Acolytes.
The first three blocks were along the main drag, by stores and empty display windows.
Mass merchants and discounters generally had the largest sales gains, as reported by stores open more than one year.
And stop by stores and get her some clothes.
The group's stores had $4.8 billion in sales last year, up 12 percent, helped by new stores and new products.
Demand by new stores needing inventory has weakened.
The success was in spite of mixed reviews and the refusal by several stores to carry the book over objections to its content.
The first album Arroz con leche went by unnoticed in the record stores.
Sales by stores at least one year old, a barometer considered the most revealing of performance, rose 3 percent.
There was also powder and shot by the ton, twenty light field-artillery pieces, and much other military stores.