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To: MythMan who wrote (348540)	11/14/2007 12:12:15 PM
From: Giordano Bruno	Respond to of 436258

October details Sales at general merchandise stores fell 0.1%. Food sales rose 0.4% in October. Sales at health- and personal-care stores rose 0.2%. Department stores saw their sales fall 0.5% in October. Sales at furniture stores dropped 0.9%. Sales at appliance and electronics stores climbed 0.1%, the best performance in two months. "Already the past three months have been grim in general [merchandise], furniture, electronics and clothing," said Ian Shepherdson of High Frequency Economics in an email. "The holiday season will be terrible." Sales at hardware and garden stores rose 0.6%. Sales at clothing stores rose 0.1%. Sales at music, book and sporting-goods stores fell 0.4%.