{"id":3068,"date":"2014-01-10T06:52:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T01:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2014\/01\/10\/pier-1-december-sales-down-109\/"},"modified":"2014-01-10T06:52:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T01:22:00","slug":"pier-1-december-sales-down-109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/pier-1-december-sales-down-109\/","title":{"rendered":"Pier 1 December sales down 10.9%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furniture Today,<br \/>\nFORT WORTH, Texas \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Pier 1 Imports said its sales<br \/>\n                        <!--adsense--><br \/>\n\t\t <!--more--><br \/>\n for five weeks ended Dec. 30 came to $242.5 million, a decrease of 10.9% from the same period a year earlier, with same-store sales down 10.7%.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Although early December sales trends, driven primarily by holiday-related items, were better than we had experienced in prior months, sales of our core home furnishing related items did not improve,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Marvin Girouard, Pier 1 chairman and CEO. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Overall, sales were very promotional, resulting in the strong sell-through of seasonal merchandise and continued inventory control.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>He said the company has begun its January clearance, and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153our focus remains on keeping inventory levels on plan as we begin to receive the new spring merchandise.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>For the fiscal year to date, sales of $1.39 billion were down 9.8% from a year earlier and same-store sales declined 11.4%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furniture Today, FORT WORTH, Texas \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Pier 1 Imports said its 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-3068","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\/3068","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=3068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}