TABLE-US chain store sales fall 2.3 pct last week-Redbook

NEW YORK, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Redbook Research on Wednesday
released the following seasonally adjusted weekly data on U.S.
chain store sales:
Year-over-year: Week (w/e 1/17/09 vs year ago) -2.3 pct
Year-over-year:Month (January 2009 vs January 2008) -2.1 pct
Month-over-month: (January 2009 vs December 2008) -2.5 pct

The Johnson Redbook Retail Sales Index is a sales-weighted
index of year-over-year same-store sales growth in a sample of
large U.S. general merchandise retailers representing about
9,000 stores.
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