In the retail sales, it may be from the gift cards people received during the holiday time frame but didn't use until January.

The city's sales tax revenues were $900,050 in February. The major reason is due to economic growth and increased retail sales.

Holiday sales have become a vital component of the retail sales cycle for millions of small businesses. Overall, we found 51 percent of U.S. small business owners believe Valentine's Day sales are important to their business and are optimistic that sales will be rosy this year.

This is very much a good sign for holiday PC sales.

We were obviously disappointed by sales for this holiday season, particularly because we had been outperforming the retail sector as a whole for the previous nine months,

We've had very strong sales recently, and we have our fingers crossed for the holiday season.