date:Dec 23, 2013
food business continues to trade well the firm has posted nine straight quarters of declining underlying clothing sales and could report a tenth when it updates on third quarter trading on Jan. 9.
Analysts had hoped that with the inclusion of the much vaunted new autumn/winter ranges, the firm's third quarter to end-December would see general merchandise return to positive like-for-like sales growth. The previous quarter had included the new range for just three weeks of the period.
Now, many