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1927 - 4 R&S RTI - 26 FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD STATE! 31 ;T FOR THE PRESS for r e l e a s e in morning p a p e r s , Thursday, February 10, 1927. R e t a i l Trade in January, 1927. Sales in January, 1927, of 539 department and o t h e r r e t a i l s t o r e s which, made preliminary r e p o r t s t o the Federal reserve system were one p e r cent l a r g e r than in January of l a s t y e a r . Sales increased in seven Federal r e s e r v e d i s t r i c t s and declined in f i v e d i s t r i c t s . With the exception of the P h i l a d e l p h i a d i s t r i c t , where s a l e s were 4 . 4 p e r cent smaller than in January, 1926, s a l e s were l a r g e r in a l l the e a s t e r n d i s t r i c t s and in the Chicago and San Francisco d i s t r i c t s . They wore smaller in the Richmond, S t . Louis, Minneapolis, and D a l l a s d i s t r i c t s , and p r a c t i c a l l y unchanged in the A t l a n t a d i s t r i c t . Of the 539 s t o r e s r e p o r t i n g , 261 showed i n c r e a s e s and 277 r e p o r t e d d e c l i n e s . Seles of two l e a d i n g m a i l - o r d e r houses were 7 per cent smaller in January, 1927 than in the corresponding month of 1926, while s a l e s of 5 r e p o r t i n g f i v e and ten cent chain s t o r e s were 4 . 3 per cent l a r g e r than a year e a r l i e r . Percentage changes i n d o l l a r s a l e s between January, 1927 and January, 1926 a r e given in the f o l l o w i n g t a b l e : :Tot a l number of s t o r e s r e p o r t i n g : Percentage of i n c r e a s e or : Total ; Increase :Decrease : decrease compared w i t h J a n . ; : : : Federal Reserve District Boston New York Philadelphia Cleveland Richmond Atlanta Chicago S t . Louis Minneapolis Kansas City Dallas San Francisco Total 59 53* 86 40 45 35 58 18 17 23 17 88 539 28 20 37 22 24 20 30 6 6 13 11 44 31 32 49 18 21 15 28 12 11 10 6 44 261 277 Mail order houses (2 houses) Five and t e n cent s t o r e s (5 chains) * One s t o r e showed n e i t h e r increase or d e c r e a s e . + 3.0 2.4 4.4 3.3 1.2 0.05 1.3 5.1 1.1 2.9 4.6 3.4 + 1.0 + + - + - + + - + - - 6.9 + 4.3
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