Management expected the gap between revenue growth and inventory growth to close in the fourth quarter, but I am not sure that went down to any large degree given unseasonable weather.
Bulls says the March fall in sales was an anomaly, the result of an unseasonable cold weather that kept shoppers in much of the country from buying spring clothes and seasonal merchandise.
There was no moon, and under the low cloud cover a brisk unseasonable wind ruffled the old Norwegian maples that lined the street and dropped a fine rain of spring buds on my shoulders and in my hair.