TABLE-US chain store sales fell 5.8 pct last week-Redbook

NEW YORK, July 21 (Reuters) - Redbook Research on Tuesday
released the following seasonally adjusted weekly data on U.S.
chain store sales:
Year-over-year: Week (w/e 7/18/09 vs year ago) -5.8 pct
Year-over-year:Month (July 2009 vs July 2008) -5.7 pct
Month-over-month: (July 2009 vs June 2009) -1.7 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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