Redbook - released 8:55 am

From Reuters
  
TABLE-US chain store sales up 1.6 pct last week-Redbook

Tue Jan 5, 2010 8:55am EST

NEW YORK, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Redbook Research on Tuesday
released the following seasonally adjusted weekly data on U.S.
chain store sales:

Year-over-year: Week (w/e 1/2/10 vs year ago)         1.6 pct
Year-over-year:Month (December 2009 vs December 2008) 1.8 pct
Month-over-month: (December 2009 vs November 2009)   -4.6 pct

The Johnson Redbook Retail Sales Index is a sales-weighted
index of year-over-year same-store sales growth in a sample of
large U.S. general merchandise retailers representing about
9,000 stores.    (U.S. Treasury desk; Tel: 646-223-6300)