- Slate, Friday, May 29, 2015 9:21 AM
As of April, McDonald’s global same-store sales had shrunk for 11 consecutive months worldwide. The company, therefore, has good reason to do what many other retailers have done:
stop releasing monthly sales numbers. In 2009, Walmart decided to give up reporting monthly same-store sales. So have chains like Abercrombie & Fitch, American Eagle, not to mention Pizza Hut,
Taco Bell, Chipotle, and Starbucks.
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