{"id":2781,"date":"2013-12-01T10:57:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T05:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2013\/12\/01\/pier-1-sales-down-147-in-november\/"},"modified":"2013-12-01T10:57:08","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T05:27:08","slug":"pier-1-sales-down-147-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/pier-1-sales-down-147-in-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Pier 1 sales down 14.7% in November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT WORTH, Texas \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Blaming continued weakness in its home furnishings categories, retailer Pier 1 Imports said sales                         <!--adsense--><br \/>\n\t\t <!--more--><br \/>\nfor the four weeks ended Nov. 25 declined 14.7% from the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>Comparable-store sales for the same period were off 15.3%.<\/p>\n<p> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Despite aggressive marketing and promotional efforts in November, our sales results in the home furnishings categories remain weak,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Marvin Girouard, chairman and CEO.<\/p>\n<p>Sales for the retailer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s third fiscal quarter weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t much better. Total sales for the period were $402.7 million, down 11.8% from last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s third quarter. Comparable-store sales declined 12.9%.<\/p>\n<p>And sales for the first nine months of the fiscal year were down 9.5% to $1.15 billion. Nine-month comparable store sales dropped 11.6%.<\/p>\n<p>Pier 1 will report full results from its third fiscal quarter on Dec. 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORT WORTH, Texas \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Blaming continued weakness in its home furnishings categories, retailer Pier 1 Imports said sales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furniture-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}