sales trend

Next, take a look at Apple's sales trends over the last few years.

At one time, it was the food companies that provided stores with information on sales trends.

And sales trends this year have also not appeared to favor energy conservation.

If the sales trends are leveling off, however, prices still appear set to fall further.

But this year, to widespread surprise, the sales trend has turned downward.

The January sales trend was seen as evidence of continued economic growth but at a moderate pace.

Judging from recent sales trends, the marketing message has proved effective.

But until recently, market research did not comprehensively track ethnic sales trends.

Book publishers themselves piece together information about sales trends from a patchwork of sources.

However, over the longer term, decelerating sales trends will eventually catch up.

The current sales trend, they said uniformly, is good enough not to require any additional price promotions.

The sales trends of the two companies contrasted sharply.

He said slow sales trends would force retailers to offer more promotions, perhaps through the remainder of the year.

The problems first became apparent last month as the sales trend abruptly turned from tepid to weak.

"We continue to expect a modest improvement in same-store sales trends over the next few months," he said.

This helps her work out sales trends, and predict or forecast what will happen to future sales.

"I believe the improvement in sales trend and market basket may be an indication we are getting back some market share."

It was a success: "Within three months of the program's initiation, the sales trend was moving steadily higher."

She said recent transactions logged by her firm suggested that the stronger sales trend would continue into next quarter's figures as well.

"Taking a longer-term view provides a much better picture of the underlying sales trend, which has been remarkably stable over the last four years."

What's happening to product movement, service issues, sales trends, innovations in technology, environmental issues and industry projections?

"We expected to reverse our declining sales trend in the fourth quarter, and we did," he said.

The sales trend is also down at Wal-Mart.

Post progress reports that show sales trends.

Sales trends take on an added importance at this time of year because August marks the beginning of the retailers' most critical season.