Customer traffic in comparable stores decreased 2.3% while basket size increased 1.3%. Walgreens has announced June sales of $5.63 billion, a decrease of 6.8% from $6.04 billion for the same month in fiscal 2011. Compared with prior months during this calendar year, June sales comparisons were significantly impacted by calendar day shifts and an increase…
Walgreens January Sales Decrease 2.3%
Comparable front end sales increase 1.6% from January 2011. Walgreens had January sales of $5.80 billion, a decrease of 2.3% from $5.93 billion for the same month in fiscal 2011. Total front-end sales increased 2.7% in January 2012 compared with the same month in 2011, while comparable store front-end sales increased 1.6%, following a 0.6%…
Walgreens Reports December Sales Increase of 2.7%
The drug store chain opened nine new locations in December. Walgreens has reported December sales of $6.98 billion, an increase of 2.7% from $6.80 billion for the same month in fiscal 2011. Total front-end sales increased 1.4% in December 2011 for the drug store chain, compared with the same month in 2010, while comparable store…
New Forecourt Moves
Though gas prices have dropped significantly from a year ago, forecourt-driven sales are still a challenge for many convenience stores because people aren’t buying gas as freely as they did several years ago. The reason? Our troubled economy makes it tough for many to afford the long car trips. Fewer trips mean fewer opportunities to…
Foodservice Boosts Retail Growth
Not doing foodservice? Then you better start thinking about it. That was the key message from a host of retailers, consultants and foodservice experts as CSD presented its 2009 Foodservice Webcast Series. In fact, just having food items is hardly enough. Chains need to invest in specialty fare and ethnic cuisines in order to differentiate…