same-store sales (also comparable-store sales) noun [pl.]

(Accounting )

used to refer to the change in the value of sales in a company or group's stores compared to the same stores in the previous year, used as a way of measuring the performance of the company as a whole. Only stores that have been open for more than a year are included in the total:

Wal-Mart's July same-store sales were up 6%.

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