PR Newswire Issues May 2006 '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 May 2006 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 2005. All sales figures are reported in the millions-of-dollars, unless otherwise noted.

              PR Newswire's Monthly Retail Sales Comparison

  Month: May

  TICKER     SPECIALTY APPAREL     TOTAL SALES   TOTAL SALES   TOTAL SALES
                  & GOODS         $ MONTH 2006  $ MONTH 2005  % MONTH 2006

  AEOS  American Eagle Outfitters     $168.8 M     $141.6 M         19
  ANN   Ann Taylor Stores             $217.6 M     $177.1 M       22.8
  BBY   Best Buy Co. Inc.
  BWS   Brown Shoe (Fam. Footwear)
  CMRG  Casual Male Retail Group
  CTR   Cato                           $73.8 M      $72.3 M          2
  CHRS  Charming Shoppes
  CHS   Chico's FAS                   $141.1 M     $117.1 M       20.4
  CLE   Claire's Stores             $102.562 M    $94.593 M          8
  DEBS  Deb Shops
  DBRN  Dress Barn                    $118.4 M     $104.7 M         13
  GYMB  Gymboree                       $47.3 M      $36.7 M         29
  JAS   Jo-Ann Stores                 $109.8 M     $114.6 M       -4.2
  JOSB  Joseph A. Bank Clothiers       $36.7 M      $31.5 M       16.5
  MW    Men's Wearhouse               $138.1 M     $128.7 M        7.3
  MWRK  Mothers Work                   $56.4 M      $51.9 M        8.7
  PSUN  Pacific Sunwear
  RVI   Retail Ventures, Inc.
  ROST  Ross Stores                     $417 M       $370 M         13
  SKS   Saks Inc.                     $231.2 M     $419.6 M      -44.9
  SCVL  Shoe Carnival
  TLB   Talbots
  BKE   The Buckle                     $31.1 M      $30.8 M        0.9
  PLCE  The Children's Place          $112.7 M      $90.4 M         25
  GPS   The Gap                        $1.16 B      $1.17 B       FLAT
  LTD   The Limited                   $719.4 M     $672.9 M          7
  TJX   TJX Cos.                        $1.3 B       $1.2 B          9
  URGI  United Retail                  $42.1 M      $39.1 M        7.5
  WMAR  West Marine
  WLSN  Wilsons The Leather Expert     $15.6 M      $17.2 M


  TICKER   SPECIALTY APPAREL       TOTAL SALES   TOTAL SALES   TOTAL SALES
                & GOODS             $ YTD 2006    $ YTD 2005    % YTD 2006

  AEOS  American Eagle Outfitters     $691.2 M     $598.1 M         16
  ANN   Ann Taylor Stores
  BBY   Best Buy Co. Inc.
  BWS   Brown Shoe (Fam. Footwear)
  CMRG  Casual Male Retail Group
  CTR   Cato                          $303.5 M     $287.4 M          6
  CHRS  Charming Shoppes
  CHS   Chico's FAS                     $533 M       $444 M       20.0
  CLE   Claire's Stores             $414.418 M   $397.301 M          4
  DEBS  Deb Shops
  DBRN  Dress Barn
  GYMB  Gymboree                      $233.5 M     $197.5 M         18
  JAS   Jo-Ann Stores                 $534.5 M     $535.3 M       -0.1
  JOSB  Joseph A. Bank Clothiers      $150.3 M     $128.1 M       17.3
  MW    Men's Wearhouse               $532.5 M     $504.5 M        5.5
  MWRK  Mothers Work
  PSUN  Pacific Sunwear
  RVI   Retail Ventures, Inc.
  ROST  Ross Stores                   $1.708 B     $1.494 B         14
  SKS   Saks Inc.                   $1,262.6 M   $1,959.1 M      -35.6
  SCVL  Shoe Carnival
  TLB   Talbots
  BKE   The Buckle                    $140.7 M     $136.4 M        3.2
  PLCE  The Children's Place          $539.3 M     $459.6 M         17
  GPS   The Gap                         $4.6 B       $4.8 B         -4
  LTD   The Limited                   $2.796 B     $2.648 B          6
  TJX   TJX Cos.                        $5.2 B       $4.8 B          7
  URGI  United Retail                 $151.5 M     $145.7 M          4
  WMAR  West Marine
  WLSN  Wilsons The Leather Expert     $90.3 M     $101.5 M      -11.1


  TICKER  SPECIALTY APPAREL       COMP        COMP       COMP      COMP
               & GOODS          SALES %     SALES %    SALES %   SALES %
                              MONTH 2006  MONTH 2005  YTD 2006  YTD 2005

  AEOS  American Eagle Outfitters    11                      9
  ANN   Ann Taylor Stores          12.0       -7.1
  BBY   Best Buy Co. Inc.
  BWS   Brown Shoe (Fam. Footwear)
  CMRG  Casual Male Retail Group
  CTR   Cato                         -2                      1
  CHRS  Charming Shoppes
  CHS   Chico's FAS                 7.2                    6.8
  CLE   Claire's Stores               4          3           3
  DEBS  Deb Shops
  DBRN  Dress Barn                    9
  GYMB  Gymboree                     24         -1          15
  JAS   Jo-Ann Stores              -7.6       FLAT        -4.7       0.5
  JOSB  Joseph A. Bank Clothiers    7.1                    5.3
  MW    Men's Wearhouse             5.0                    3.3
  MWRK  Mothers Work                5.5       -8.1
  PSUN  Pacific Sunwear
  RVI   Retail Ventures, Inc.
  ROST  Ross Stores                   5          7           6         4
  SKS   Saks Inc.                   1.1                   -1.4
  SCVL  Shoe Carnival
  TLB   Talbots
  BKE   The Buckle                 -3.8                   -1.8
  PLCE  The Children's Place         18                     11
  GPS   The Gap                      -6         -8          -8        -5
  LTD   The Limited                   7                      5
  TJX   TJX Cos.                      4                      2
  URGI  United Retail                 9                      5
  WMAR  West Marine
  WLSN  Wilsons The Leather Expert -9.1       11.0       -10.5      15.0



  TICKER  GENERAL MERCHANDISE      TOTAL SALES   TOTAL SALES  TOTAL SALES
                                   $ MONTH 2006  $ MONTH 2005 % MONTH 2006

  BJ    BJ's                          $655.5 M     $603.4 M        8.6
  BLI   Big Lots
  BONT  Bon Ton                       $232.3 M      $89.0 M        161
  CBK   Christopher Banks Corp.        $46.6 M      $39.3 M         19
  COST  Costco                         $4.71 B      $4.11 B         15
  DDS   Dillard's Dept. Stores      $534.299 M   $518.965 M          3
  DG    Dollar General                $687.0 M     $640.6 M        7.2
  DLTR  Dollar Tree
  FDO   Family Dollar                 $489.9 M     $442.5 M       10.7
  FD    Federated Department Stores   $2.026 B     $1.189 B       70.2
  FRED  Fred's                        $127.8 M     $117.2 M          9
  FINL  Finish Line
  GOT   Gottschalks                    $48.9 M      $47.4 M        3.3
  JCP   JCPenney                      $1,187 M     $1,067 M       11.2
  KSS   Kohl's                      $1,002.9 M     $899.1 M       11.5
  SHRP  Sharper Image                  $19.1 M      $29.2 M        -35
  SSI   Stage Stores Inc.             $116.1 M     $100.0 M       16.1
  SBUX  Starbucks
  SMRT  Stein Mart                    $119.6 M     $117.9 M        1.5
  TGT   Target Corporation            $3.929 B     $3.500 B       12.3
  WMT   Wal-Mart                     $16.901 B    $15.697 B        7.7


  TICKER   GENERAL MERCHANDISE     TOTAL SALES   TOTAL SALES   TOTAL SALES
                                    $ YTD 2006    $ YTD 2005    % YTD 2006

  BJ    BJ's                      $2,535.546 M $2,372.234 M        6.9
  BLI   Big Lots
  BONT  Bon Ton                       $794.1 M     $351.5 M        126
  CBK   Christopher Banks Corp.       $142.5 M     $122.7 M         16
  COST  Costco                        $43.01 B     $38.54 B         12
  DDS   Dillard's Dept. Stores    $2,374.256 M $2,323.051 M          2
  DG    Dollar General                  $2.8 B       $2.6 B        7.8
  DLTR  Dollar Tree
  FDO   Family Dollar               $4,816.7 M          9.6
  FD    Federated Department Stores   $7.956 B     $4.830 B       64.7
  FRED  Fred's                        $544.7 M     $500.2 M          9
  FINL  Finish Line                 $289.046 M   $291.267 M       -0.8
  GOT   Gottschalks                   $192.4 M     $191.5 M        0.5
  JCP   JCPenney                      $4,722 M     $4,526 M        4.3
  KSS   Kohl's                      $4,187.6 M   $3,641.9 M       15.0
  SHRP  Sharper Image                  $75.9 M     $107.5 M        -29
  SSI   Stage Stores Inc.             $459.6 M     $410.1 M
  SBUX  Starbucks
  SMRT  Stein Mart                    $484.5 M     $498.5 M       -2.8
  TGT   Target Corporation           $16,422 M                    11.9
  WMT   Wal-Mart                     $70.369 B    $64.343 B        9.4


  TICKER   GENERAL MERCHANDISE    COMP        COMP       COMP      COMP
                                SALES %     SALES %    SALES %   SALES %
                              MONTH 2006  MONTH 2005  YTD 2006  YTD 2005

  BJ    BJ's                       4.2        0.5         2.6
  BLI   Big Lots
  BONT  Bon Ton                   -4.1                   -3.2
  CBK   Christopher Banks Corp.      8                      7
  COST  Costco                      10                      8
  DDS   Dillard's Dept. Stores       3                      2
  DG    Dollar General             1.3        4.4         1.4
  DLTR  Dollar Tree
  FDO   Family Dollar              4.5                    3.3
  FD    Federated Department
         Stores                    9.2                    2.2
  FRED  Fred's                     2.4          2         2.3       2.7
  FINL  Finish Line                                      -7.2
  GOT   Gottschalks                2.8                    0.1
  JCP   JCPenney                  11.1        2.9         3.6       2.8
  KSS   Kohl's                     3.1                    6.0
  SHRP  Sharper Image              -36                    -31
  SSI   Stage Stores Inc.          4.0        7.0         3.4       5.4
  SBUX  Starbucks
  SMRT  Stein Mart                 1.0                   -3.7
  TGT   Target Corporation         5.7        5.1         5.3       6.0
  WMT   Wal-Mart                   2.0        2.8         3.1       2.9



  TICKER  HOME SUPPLY             TOTAL SALES   TOTAL SALES   TOTAL SALES
                                  $ MONTH 2006  $ MONTH 2005 % MONTH 2006

  PIR   Pier 1                      $120.884 M    $126.291 M       -4.3


  TICKER  HOME SUPPLY             TOTAL SALES   TOTAL SALES   TOTAL SALES
                                   $ YTD 2006    $ YTD 2005    % YTD 2006

  PIR   Pier 1                      $376.092 M    $390.314 M       -3.6


  TICKER  HOME SUPPLY            COMP        COMP        COMP      COMP
                                SALES %     SALES %     SALES %   SALES %
                               MONTH 2006  MONTH 2005   YTD 2006 YTD 2005

  PIR   Pier 1                    -6.6                    -6.6


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