The enabling lackeys in government and economics are just their industry-owned stooges...
Ten years later:
Outlook for ’18 contrasts with GM projecting resilient results
"Once upon a time, when retailers reported same-store or comparable sales, the metric referred only to sales from stores themselves, excluding e-commerce. However, as store-based sales have become challenged, retailers have begun to group e-commerce under the heading of comparable sales
Target, for instance, which is on track for its best quarterly comp growth in at least two years...the actual same-store sales growth from stores was closer to just 1%"
"Once upon a time, when retailers reported same-store or comparable sales, the metric referred only to sales from stores themselves, excluding e-commerce. However, as store-based sales have become challenged, retailers have begun to group e-commerce under the heading of comparable sales
Target, for instance, which is on track for its best quarterly comp growth in at least two years...the actual same-store sales growth from stores was closer to just 1%"