Week Two of January Down
January has a tendency to show some highly volatile weeks in terms of sales. Week two of 2018 appears to be one of those weeks. Independent grocers reported that their same store sales were down 5.51 percent compared to the same week in 2017. Customer counts were down 0.79 percent.
For a brief history lesson, last year’s pulse reports showed a big increase in week two sales followed by a large dip in week three. Hopefully 2018 will show things moving in the opposite direction going into next week.