date:May 23, 2013
d comparable retail sales increased by 0.4%. Sales benefitted as a result of new retail stores and wholesale customers, and as a result of an earlier Easter holiday shifting sales from the first quarter to the fourth quarter this year.
These encouraging results reflect improvement across both our distribution and retail segments as we gained new customers, continued to refine our promotional and loyalty programs and benefitted from the early Easter holiday, Dennis Eidson, Spartans president and