{"id":3247,"date":"2014-02-09T08:21:42","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T02:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2014\/02\/09\/haverty-furniture-same-store-sales-fall\/"},"modified":"2014-02-09T08:21:42","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T02:51:42","slug":"haverty-furniture-same-store-sales-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/haverty-furniture-same-store-sales-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Haverty Furniture Same-Store Sales Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Haverty Furniture Posts 4.4 Percent Drop in January Same-Store Sales<br \/>\n                        <!--adsense--><br \/>\n\t\t <!--more--><br \/>\nATLANTA (AP) &#8212; Home furnishings retailer Haverty Furniture Cos. said Thursday its sales at stores open at least a year, or same-store sales, fell 4.4 percent in January.<\/p>\n<p>Total sales for the month slipped 3 percent to $64.9 million from $66.9 million in January 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our January started very slowly with weak business for the New Year&#8217;s holiday in many of the markets we serve,&#8221; said Clarence H. Smith, president and chief executive officer. &#8220;We experienced a gradual increase in momentum throughout January with total written sales off by about 6 percent for the full month.<\/p>\n<p>The company said the general trend for retail home furnishings sales remains sluggish due to the continued housing market slowdown.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have continued to maintain our pricing integrity and are focusing on adjusting our operating costs to meet the current business conditions,&#8221; Smith added.<\/p>\n<p>Havertys operates 120 showrooms in 17 states in the Southern and Midwestern regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haverty Furniture Posts 4.4 Percent Drop in January Same-Store 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-3247","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\/3247","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=3247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}