The company has a difficult comparison with last year when there were many clearancesale events as goods bought under the previous management were sold off.
As markets deteriorated at the onset of the Great Recession, many investors moved to cash and other instinctively defensive plays like gold to protect their wealth, missing a veritable clearancesale on U.S. equities in the process.
The retailer is tweeting previews of sale items and it looks like home and seasonal goods that would normally be listed as clearance sales are carrying the Black Friday tag.