{"id":16247,"date":"2010-06-10T14:44:12","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T21:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=16247"},"modified":"2010-06-10T14:49:57","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T21:49:57","slug":"west-49-loses-money-in-q1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=16247","title":{"rendered":"West 49 Loses Money In Q1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/west49.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/west49.jpg','popup','width=134,height=112,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/west49-tm.jpg\" height=\"83\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"West49\" \/><\/a>While reports of the return of the teen fashion shopper <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/BT-CO-20100603-711283.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines\" target=\"_blank\">have been mixed<\/a><\/strong>, Canada&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.west49.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">West 49<\/a><\/strong> (the<strong> <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zumiez.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zumiez<\/a><\/strong> of Canada) has announced that they lost $2.6 million on sales of $40.9 million in quarter one ending May 1, 2010, according to a story in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/business\/article\/821773--retailer-west-49-reports-first-quarter-loss\" target=\"_blank\">The Star<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During the quarter, same-store sales fell 2.6 per cent, and were particularly squeezed in Alberta and British Columbia largely due to weather and the sluggish regional economy in parts of the West. . . . West 49 said that reductions in selling, general and administrative expenses offset a decline in profit margins, while the company gained efficiencies in some of its operations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It would appear that Canada is a little behind in the &#8220;recovery&#8221; as they are in pretty much everything else.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/business\/article\/821773--retailer-west-49-reports-first-quarter-loss\" target=\"_blank\">The Star<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While reports of the return of the teen fashion shopper have been mixed, Canada&#8217;s West 49 (the Zumiez of Canada) has announced that they lost $2.6 million on sales of $40.9 million in quarter one ending May 1, 2010, according to a story in The Star. During the quarter, same-store sales fell 2.6 per cent, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16247"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16249,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16247\/revisions\/16249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}