{"id":388170,"date":"2010-03-04T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/what-snow-shoppers-ignore-winter-storms-boosting-retail-sales-during-february-2010-3"},"modified":"2010-03-04T10:36:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T15:36:00","slug":"what-snow-shoppers-ignore-winter-storms-boosting-retail-sales-during-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/388170","title":{"rendered":"What Snow? Shoppers Ignore Winter Storms, Boosting Retail Sales During February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retailers saw better-than-expected numbers during February as economists worried that snowstorms in the Northeast and Midwest would dampen shopping activity. <\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a look at how some of the most popular retailers did in February:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Abercrombie &amp; Fitch (ANF): SSS up 5% vs. Retail Metrics estimate down 6.7%.<\/li>\n<li>Macy&#8217;s (M): SSS up 3.7% vs. Retail Metrics estimate up 2%.<\/li>\n<li>Gap Inc. (GPS): SSS up 3% vs. Retail Metrics estimate up 1.5%.<\/li>\n<li>Limited Brands (LTD): SSS up 10% vs. Retail Metrics estimate up 9.3%.<\/li>\n<li>Aeropostale (ARO): SSS up 7% vs. Retail Metrics estimate up 4%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you can clearly see, Limited Brands KILLED it despite the snow storms. Perhaps consumers are finally ready to start spending again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/what-snow-shoppers-ignore-winter-storms-boosting-retail-sales-during-february-2010-3#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/christmas-was-far-more-awesome-than-expected-2010-1\">Awesome Christmas Sales Means Retailers Don&#8217;t Need To Blame Snowstorms<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/check-out-the-retail-home-run-in-december-2010-1\">Check Out The Retail Home Run In December<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/are-luxury-retailers-stealthily-having-an-awesome-year-2009-12\">Are Luxury Retailers Stealthily Having An Awesome Christmas?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/ZNz7WcJ4xBk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retailers saw better-than-expected numbers during February as economists worried that snowstorms in the Northeast and Midwest would dampen shopping activity. Let&#8217;s take a look at how some of the most popular retailers did in February: Abercrombie &amp; Fitch (ANF): SSS up 5% vs. Retail Metrics estimate down 6.7%. Macy&#8217;s (M): SSS up 3.7% vs. Retail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}