PR Newswire Issues December 2005 'Retail Review & Comparison'
PRNewswire
NEW YORK

A compilation of sales figures from leading U.S. retailers, PR Newswire's "Retail Review & Comparison" provides a company-by-company analysis of monthly and year-to-date retail results. The current report, prepared by PR Newswire, compiles data from the month of December 2005 based upon the nationwide release of monthly same-store-sales distributed over PR Newswire and other sources.

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Statistics listed in the report include total sales figures from the current month and full year, percentage of sales with respect to overall yearly revenues, and comparisons between the current month and year with returns from the same period in 2004. All sales figures are reported in the millions-of-dollars, unless otherwise noted.

              PR Newswire's Monthly Retail Sales Comparison

  Month: December


  TICKER     SPECIALTY APPAREL     TOTAL SALES   TOTAL SALES   TOTAL SALES
                  & GOODS         $ MONTH 2005  $ MONTH 2004  % MONTH 2005

  AEOS   American Eagle Outfitters   $433.2 M     $375.0 M       15.5
  ANN    Ann Taylor Stores         $267.695 M   $239.924 M       11.6
  BBY    Best Buy Co. Inc.
  BBA    Bombay Company              $100.5 M     $107.4 M       -6.4
  BWS    Brown Shoe (Fam. Footwear)
  CMRG   Casual Male Retail Group
  CTR    Cato                        $104.3 M     $101.4 M          3
  CHRS   Charming Shoppes            $396.9 M     $283.8 M         40
  CHS    Chico's FAS                 $172.6 M     $128.5 M       34.3
  CLE    Claire's Stores           $231.454 M   $224.024 M          3
  DEBS   Deb Shops                    $42.7 M      $40.7 M        4.7
  DBRN   Dress Barn                  $147.2 M      $84.1 M         75
  GDYS   Goody's                     $205.9 M     $197.1 M        4.5
  GYMB   Gymboree                     $86.6 M      $72.1 M         20
  JAS    Jo-Ann Stores               $273.5 M     $261.5 M        4.6
  JOSB   Joseph A. Bank Clothiers     $91.1 M      $68.0 M       34.0
  MW     Men's Wearhouse             $203.8 M     $183.3 M       11.2
  MWRK   Mothers Work                 $55.6 M      $49.6 M       12.0
  PSUN   Pacific Sunwear             $242.4 M     $218.6 M       10.9
  RVI    Retail Ventures, Inc.       $386.8 M     $364.4 M        6.2
  ROST   Ross Stores                   $672 M       $579 M         16
  SKS    Saks Inc.                   $898.4 M   $1,056.3 M      -15.0
  SCVL   Shoe Carnival                $72.5 M      $64.3 M       12.8
  TLB    Talbots                     $222.8 M     $217.3 M          3
  BKE    The Buckle                   $82.8 M      $79.5 M        4.1
  PLCE   The Children's Place        $286.7 M     $264.7 M          8
  GPS    The Gap                       $2.4 B       $2.6 B         -5
  LTD    The Limited                 $1.911 B     $1.815 B          5
  TJX    TJX Cos.                      $2.3 B       $2.1 B         11
  URGI   United Retail                $56.6 M      $49.8 M         14
  WMAR   West Marine
  WLSN   Wilsons The Leather Expert  $110.2 M     $120.9 M       -8.9


  TICKER   SPECIALTY APPAREL       TOTAL SALES   TOTAL SALES   TOTAL SALES
                & GOODS             $ YTD 2005    $ YTD 2004    % YTD 2005

  AEOS   American Eagle Outfitters   $2.181 B     $1.772 B       23.1
  ANN    Ann Taylor Stores
  BBY    Best Buy Co. Inc.
  BBA    Bombay Company              $528.7 M     $538.0 M       -1.7
  BWS    Brown Shoe (Fam. Footwear)
  CMRG   Casual Male Retail Group
  CTR    Cato                        $767.5 M     $724.3 M          6
  CHRS   Charming Shoppes          $2,586.1 M   $2,207.7 M         17
  CHS    Chico's FAS                  $1.31 B       $999 M       31.5
  CLE    Claire's Stores         $1,287.881 M $1,204.865 M          7
  DEBS   Deb Shops
  DBRN   Dress Barn
  GDYS   Goody's                     $1.214 B     $1.206 B        0.7
  GYMB   Gymboree
  JAS    Jo-Ann Stores               $1.742 B     $1.677 B        3.9
  JOSB   Joseph A. Bank Clothiers    $433.8 M     $348.6 M       24.4
  MW     Men's Wearhouse           $1,415.0 M   $1,260.9 M       12.2
  MWRK   Mothers Work
  PSUN   Pacific Sunwear           $1,316.2 M   $1,164.4 M       13.0
  RVI    Retail Ventures, Inc.        $2.76 B      $2.60 B        6.1
  ROST   Ross Stores                 $4.655 B     $3.998 B         16
  SKS    Saks Inc.                 $5,595.1 M   $6,033.2 M       -7.3
  SCVL   Shoe Carnival               $616.6 M     $555.8 M       10.9
  TLB    Talbots                   $1,676.5 M   $1,571.3 M          7
  BKE    The Buckle                  $473.1 M     $445.2 M        6.3
  PLCE   The Children's Place        $1.582 B     $1.079 B         47
  GPS    The Gap                      $15.1 B      $15.4 B         -2
  LTD    The Limited                 $8.886 B     $8.658 B          3
  TJX    TJX Cos.                     $15.1 B      $14.1 B          7
  URGI   United Retail               $411.0 M     $375.0 M         10
  WMAR   West Marine                 $692.2 M     $683.0 M        1.4
  WLSN   Wilsons The Leather Expert  $370.6 M     $410.6 M       -9.7


  TICKER  SPECIALTY APPAREL       COMP        COMP       COMP      COMP
               & GOODS          SALES %     SALES %    SALES %   SALES %
                              MONTH 2005  MONTH 2004  YTD 2005  YTD 2004

  AEOS   American Eagle Outfitters 9.8                   15.8
  ANN    Ann Taylor Stores         1.5       -1.5
  BBY    Best Buy Co. Inc.
  BBA    Bombay Company           -3.5                   -2.0
  BWS    Brown Shoe (Fam. Footwear)
  CMRG   Casual Male Retail Group
  CTR    Cato                       -2                      1
  CHRS   Charming Shoppes            5                      3
  CHS    Chico's FAS              16.4        8.6        14.3
  CLE    Claire's Stores             4          5           6
  DEBS   Deb Shops                 4.5
  DBRN   Dress Barn                  8
  GDYS   Goody's                  -0.9                   -4.6
  GYMB   Gymboree                   16          1
  JAS    Jo-Ann Stores            -0.5        4.2        -0.6       2.9
  JOSB   Joseph A. Bank Clothiers 20.7                   10.0
  MW     Men's Wearhouse           8.1                    8.9
  MWRK   Mothers Work              3.5       -1.9
  PSUN   Pacific Sunwear           1.0                    3.1
  RVI    Retail Ventures, Inc.     3.2                    0.2
  ROST   Ross Stores                 6                      6
  SKS    Saks Inc.                 2.4                    2.0
  SCVL   Shoe Carnival            10.6                    6.6
  TLB    Talbots                   1.1                    2.8
  BKE    The Buckle               -1.3                    1.3
  PLCE   The Children's Place       11         21           9        15
  GPS    The Gap                    -9         -1          -5         1
  LTD    The Limited                 3                     -1
  TJX    TJX Cos.                    6                      2
  URGI   United Retail              16          6          11         2
  WMAR   West Marine                                     -2.2       0.3
  WLSN   Wilsons The
          Leather Expert          -7.7       -4.7        -2.2       0.8


  TICKER  GENERAL MERCHANDISE      TOTAL SALES   TOTAL SALES  TOTAL SALES
                                   $ MONTH 2005  $ MONTH 2004 % MONTH 2005

  BJ     BJ's                      $965.864 M   $924.484 M         4.5
  BLI    Big Lots                    $708.1 M     $667.5 M         6.1
  BONT   Bon Ton                     $259.9 M     $257.8 M         0.8
  CBK    Christopher Banks Corp.      $60.2 M      $55.1 M           9
  COST   Costco                       $6.37 B      $5.77 B          10
  DDS    Dillard's Dept. Stores  $1,270.324 M $1,255.851 M           1
  DG     Dollar General              $1.049 B     $1.007 B         4.2
  DLTR   Dollar Tree
  FDO    Family Dollar               $804.9 M     $742.8 M         8.4
  FD     Federated Department Stores $5.708 B     $2.856 B        99.9
  FRED   Fred's                      $205.0 M     $183.8 M          12
  FINL   Finish Line
  GOT    Gottschalks                 $131.5 M     $125.2 M         5.0
  JCP    JCPenney                    $2,839 M     $2,757 M         3.0
  KSS    Kohl's                    $2,481.8 M   $2,135.3 M        16.2
  SHRP   Sharper Image               $106.1 M     $116.5 M          -9
  STGS   Stage Stores Inc.           $241.9 M     $221.5 M         9.2
  SBUX   Starbucks
  SMRT   Stein Mart                  $211.8 M     $224.0 M        -5.4
  TGT    Target Corporation          $8.420 B     $7.548 B        11.6
  WMT    Wal-Mart                   $27.920 B    $26.177 B         6.7


  TICKER   GENERAL MERCHANDISE     TOTAL SALES   TOTAL SALES   TOTAL SALES
                                    $ YTD 2005    $ YTD 2004    % YTD 2005

  BJ     BJ's                    $7,260.517 M $6,724.302 M         8.0
  BLI    Big Lots                  $4,319.9 M   $4,068.6 M         6.2
  BONT   Bon Ton                   $1,224.4 M   $1,248.1 M        -1.9
  CBK    Christopher Banks Corp.     $424.1 M     $374.7 M          13
  COST   Costco
  DDS    Dillard's Dept. Stores  $7,053.255 M $7,038.782 M        flat
  DG     Dollar General                $7.8 B       $7.1 B        10.2
  DLTR   Dollar Tree
  FDO    Family Dollar             $2,316.4 M                      9.1
  FD     Federated Department
          Stores                     $21.495 B    $14.958 B        43.7
  FRED   Fred's                      $1.478 B     $1.336 B          11
  FINL   Finish Line
  GOT    Gottschalks                 $641.0 M     $626.8 M         2.3
  JCP    JCPenney                   $15,048 M    $14,515 M         3.7
  KSS    Kohl's                   $12,725.8 M  $11,103.7 M        14.6
  SHRP   Sharper Image               $383.4 M     $407.3 M          -6
  STGS   Stage Stores Inc.         $1,278.0 M   $1,180.1 M         5.6
  SBUX   Starbucks
  SMRT   Stein Mart                $1,401.4 M   $1,379.9 M         1.6
  TGT    Target Corporation         $47.705 B                     12.1
  WMT    Wal-Mart                  $194.861 B   $177.889 B         9.5


  TICKER  SPECIALTY APPAREL       COMP        COMP       COMP      COMP
               & GOODS          SALES %     SALES %    SALES %   SALES %
                              MONTH 2005  MONTH 2004  YTD 2005  YTD 2004

  BJ     BJ's                      1.4         5.6         3.7
  BLI    Big Lots                  2.3         0.1         1.5      -0.3
  BONT   Bon Ton                   0.8                    -1.7
  CBK    Christopher Banks Corp.     2                       2
  COST   Costco                      7
  DDS    Dillard's Dept. Stores      1                    flat
  DG     Dollar General            2.8         1.7         2.3
  DLTR   Dollar Tree
  FDO    Family Dollar             2.3                     2.8
  FD     Federated Department
          Stores                   3.4                     1.3
  FRED   Fred's                    1.9        -1.3         1.3       2.2
  FINL   Finish Line
  GOT    Gottschalks               3.7                     1.2
  JCP    JCPenney                  2.2        -1.3         2.9       5.1
  KSS    Kohl's                    4.6                     3.5
  SHRP   Sharper Image             -15                     -16
  STGS   Stage Stores Inc.         7.3         3.1         2.4
  SBUX   Starbucks
  SMRT   Stein Mart               -6.1                     0.3
  TGT    Target Corporation        4.7         5.1         5.6       5.0
  WMT    Wal-Mart                  1.9         2.8         3.2       2.9


  TICKER  HOME SUPPLY             TOTAL SALES   TOTAL SALES   TOTAL SALES
                                  $ MONTH 2005  $ MONTH 2004 % MONTH 2005

  HVT    Haverty                      $79.1 M      $78.3 M         1.0
  PIR    Pier 1                    $286.869 M   $289.628 M        -1.0


  TICKER  HOME SUPPLY             TOTAL SALES   TOTAL SALES   TOTAL SALES
                                   $ YTD 2005    $ YTD 2004    % YTD 2005

  HVT    Haverty                     $827.7 M     $784.2 M         5.5
  PIR    Pier 1                  $1,607.413 M $1,661.654 M        -3.3


  TICKER  HOME SUPPLY            COMP        COMP        COMP      COMP
                                SALES %     SALES %     SALES %   SALES %
                               MONTH 2005  MONTH 2004   YTD 2005 YTD 2004

  HVT    Haverty                 -0.7                     1.8
  PIR    Pier 1                  -4.8                    -8.1


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