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Monday, February 25, 2008

Lowe's Same Store Sales Sequentially Worse

by Calculated Risk on 2/25/2008 10:49:00 AM

This morning, Lowe's reported same-store sales declined 7.6% for the quarter.

But sequentially sales are even worse.

From the Lowe's conference call:

Same Store sales fell 4% in November (YoY)

Same store sales fell 9% in December

Same store sales fell 11% in January

CEO Niblock said he was "a bit surprised" by the weakness.