Retailers

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New Albany-based apparel retailer (NYSE:ANF) told investors Thursday morningt that salesat company-owned stores open at least a year durinh May dropped 28 percent. Columbus-based , owne r of the Victoria’s Secret and Bath and Body Worksx chains, reported a 7 percent declinewin same-store sales. For Abercrombie, the double-digit percentag e decline in same-store sales was led once again by its Ruehl which marketsto post-collegee adults. The 29-store chain saw a same-store sales declines of 33 percent the same month the company told investorx it is looking at strategic options for thestruggling Abercrombie’s Hollister Co.
chain wasn’t far behine with a 32 percent same-store sales Total sales for Abercrombie fell 22 percent last monthto $182.1 milliom from $233.1 million a year ago. Limited by comparison, saw total sales fall 6 percent last monthgto $618.7 million from $661.3 Another Ohio retailer with a major Central Ohio presence, Macy’s Inc. told investors Thursday its same-stores sales fell 9 percent last Total monthly salesfor Macy’s, which has seve n stores in the area, dropped 9.5 percent to $1.7 billion. Total May sales for the retail sector were projected to dropby 3.6 according to Retail Metrics, a Massachusetts firm. This compares with a 2.7 percen decline in April.
Department stores were forecast to post theweakestg results, down 8.5 percent, with “discretionart spending still in hiding,” according to the firm’as monthly report. • Abercrombie same-store sales in the firsft four months of the fiscal year fell 29 percent as total sales dropped 23 percentto $794.2 million. A year ago, the company notched $1.03 billion in sales through May. Same-store sales for Limited fell 7 percent in the firsrtfour months, with totak sales off 10 percent at $2.34 billion. That compares with $2.59 billiom last year.