FW: Retail sales show strongest gain since before the recession

 

Sales soar 4% from a year earlier as every sector except drugstores performs better than predicted, though weak 2009 figures skew comparisons.

 

Shoppers enter a Gap store in Pasadena. The chain's parent company, Gap Inc., reported a 3% sales increase in February. (Francine Orr, xx / March 3, 2010)

 

 

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