Corroborating Mr. Hodges' figures was the Federal Reserve Board's report of the large sales increase in the nation's department stores for the week ending March 4.

" The original sequence and its 1959 sequel, The Return of the Shmoo, have been collected in print many times since, most recently in 2011, always to high sales figures.

His first releases under his own name, " Booster Blues " and " Dry Southern Blues ," were hits ; this led to the release of the other two songs from that session, " Got the Blues " and " Long Lonesome Blues ," which became a runaway success, with sales in six figures.

although independent and DIY music sales may be tracking better according to figures released March 30, 2009.

The stereotype was solidified in 1997 when Kraft foods released sales figures, revealing Salt Lake City to have the highest per-capita Jello consumption.

However, this was also the period of Mads greatest sales figures.

This helped to slightly bolster the flagging sales figures in the mid 1990s.

Supporters cite the band's accomplishments including longevity, proficiency, and influence, as well as commercial sales figures and RIAA certifications.

The growth of the sport during this period can also be seen in sales figures for Makaha, which quoted $ 10 million worth of board sales between 1963 and 1965 ( Weyland, 2002: 28 ).

While reliable figures are difficult to obtain, estimated global sales of The Hobbit run between 35 and 100 million copies since 1937.

In the 2008 ranking of average sales figures for anime copies sold in Japan ( 1970-2008 total sales figures averaged by episode ), Gundam series were in four of the top five places: Mobile Suit Gundam ranked second, with Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny third, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED fourth, and Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam fifth.

The album became the artist's most commercially successful since Diamonds and Pearls, partly due to a radical scheme devised which included in Billboard's sales figures those that were distributed to each customer during ticket sales for the Musicology tour, with concert figures accounting for 25 % of the total album sales.

The investment community uses this figure to determine a company's size, as opposed to sales or total asset figures.

They also pointed out that the rise of this industry meant that artistic excellence was displaced by sales figures as a measure of worth: a novel, for example, was judged meritorious solely on whether it was a best-seller, music succumbed to ratings charts and the blunt commercial logic of the Gold disc.

The nominees for Album of the Year and International Album of the Year are determined by sales figures.

Harley-Davidson's sales plummeted from 21, 000 in 1929 to 3, 703 in 1933.

As a result, sales plummeted, and Apple was forced to write off millions of dollars in unsold inventory.

With efforts at improved audio fidelity, the big record companies succeeded in keeping business booming through the end of the decade, but the record sales plummeted during the Great Depression, with many companies merging or going out of business.

Dreamcast sales were positive during launch, but when Sony announced the PlayStation 2, sales of the Dreamcast plummeted.

Zanzibar, mainly Pemba Island, was once the world's leading clove producer, but annual clove sales have plummeted by 80 percent since the 1970s.

After sales of General Motors vehicles plummeted and when the U. S Government bailed out the company, GM began developing more fuel efficient cars and trucks in order to compete with foreign automakers.

With an increasingly poor reputation for quality, Hyundai sales plummeted, and many dealerships either earned their profits on repairs or abandoned the product.

After sales had plummeted to 60, 000 and a review of guitar instrumentalist Duane Eddy had been printed which began with the immortal words ' On this, his 35th album, we find Duane in as good as voice as ever ,' the NME had been told to rethink its policies or die on the vine.

However, Renault's Wisconsin-built and imported models quickly became the target of customer complaints for poor quality, and sales plummeted.

Printing sales plummeted.

However, less than five years after the 1996 launch of APS, the compact autofocus digital camera became available at increasingly reasonable prices, and APS camera sales plummeted.

When Vitaphone was abandoned in favor of sound-on-film systems — and record industry sales plummeted due to the Great Depression -- Warners leased the entire Brunswick record operation to the American Record Corporation ( ARC ) in December 1931.

After sales plummeted in response to the boycott, an issue was published in which Memín's friends, with the aid of the church priest, paint one of the angels in the church black ; Memín returns to church and dreams of becoming an angel.

As a result, sales plummeted to 243, 000 in 2003, 139, 000 in 2004, 124, 000 in 2005, and 119, 000 in 2006.

Daihatsu's sales in Europe had plummeted from 58, 000 in 2007 before the financial crisis, to 12, 000 in 2011.

But at its nadir in the 2000s, this sales figure plunged to around 25, 000-35, 000 per bi-monthly issue, or about one-eighth of Mad monthly circulation, which had also plummeted from its mid-1970s peak of over 2 million per issue.

When the disco craze ended in 1979 and record sales for both The Bee Gees and Casablanca's Village People plummeted, the company's fate was sealed.

Vinyl record sales plummeted, and many turntable manufacturers failed as a result.

As the 1950s progressed, motorcycle sales plummeted.

The 500 R was also a stop-gap for Fiat prior to the launch of the Fiat 126, and when the new 126 was launched, sales of the old Fiat 500 R plummeted.

The quality of Tijuana bibles available on the market suffered, and prices dropped as sales plummeted.

The revised styling did nothing for sales, which plummeted to 20, 129 in 1974.

UK microwave sales plummeted immediately after the documentary aired.

Although White Dwarf has always served as a promotions and advertising platform for Games Workshop and Citadel products, some of its longer term fans have noted that the current incarnation seems to be more geared towards sales and promotion of new releases than it was in the past.

Curiously, sales through the years 1914 to 1917 were good and it was only towards the end of the war that conditions really began pinching.

Focus in towards the commercial real estate sector, primarily real estate development or investment rather than residential real estate sales conducted by a Realtor.

The Friends have published two books, A Guide to Richmond Park and Family Trails in Richmond Park ; profits from the books ' sales contribute towards the Friends ' conservation work.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, sales of the Taurus declined as it lost market share to Japanese midsize sedans and as Ford shifted resources towards developing SUVs.

In a 2004 journal article Economist Alex Tabarrok argues that allowing organ sales, and elimination of organ donor lists will increase supply, lower costs and diminish social anxiety towards organ markets.

In 1979, AMC announced a record $ 83. 9 million profit on sales of $ 3. 1 billion ( US $ in dollars ) for the fiscal year ending in September — this despite an economic downturn, soaring energy prices, rising American unemployment, automobile plants shutting down, and an American market trend towards imported cars.

It initially proved popular with buyers but sales fell towards the end of the decade and the end of production was finally announced in May 2000, with its successor — the Rio — not going on sale for another year.

As Ford dominated the market for police cars and taxi vehicles at the time, Ford chose to continue the Crown Victoria for the purposes of securing fleet sales ; retail customers still interested in full-size rear-wheel drive cars would be marketed towards Mercury and the Grand Marquis.

Camira sales were strong initially, but as fuel prices had stabilised, buyers gravitated away from Camira and Commodore towards the larger Falcon, which overtook the Commodore as Australia's bestselling car for the first time in 1982.

The proceeds of sales on the night go towards various charitable causes.

Public opinion however holds negative feelings towards the HST with an Ipsos Reid poll showing vast majority of British Columbians ( 82 %) and Ontarians ( 74 %) oppose their provincial government ’ s plans to harmonize the sales tax.

The ECGD has been the subject of criticism by UK-based NGOs ; the Cornerhouse ( see The Corner House ( organisation )) has claimed that the ECGD has in effect provided public subsidy for bribery ; Campaign Against Arms Trade has argued that the ECGD provides excessive levels of support for arms sales ; Jubilee Debt Campaign has argued that the cancellation of debts owed to the ECGD should not be counted towards UK Official Development Assistance figures ; World Wide Fund for Nature argues that excessive greenhouse gases are emitted from ECGD-supported projects and that this is inconsistent with wider UK environmental policy.

This method is heavily biased towards distributors such as Walmart, which may have a high volume of sales but may be operating on very thin profit margins.

The Imp itself was underdeveloped, and the aforementioned build quality and unreliability problems, coupled with buyer apathy towards the quirky design was reflected in poor sales.

It was sold in catalogues and through a unique sales program geared towards farm wives.

Designed as a stimulus package and directed towards retail sales, it was largely supported by the International Monetary Fund.

The Austin / MG Maestro ( launched in 1983 ), was initially very popular, but sales dipped towards the end of the decade and in 1989 it was the 19th best selling car new car in the UK.

Additionally, as much as 50 percent or more of the original purchase price of a timeshare from a developer or resort went towards marketing costs, sales commission, and other fees, which realistically can never be recouped by the owner.

Often, aggressive sales tactics push the relatives towards expensive contracts.

The orange flavor of Mirinda now represents the majority of Mirinda sales worldwide following a major repositioning of the brand towards that flavor in the early 1990s.

With the club spiralling towards relegation, and amid later substantiated rumours of further player sales by the board Venables was sacked in March 2003.

Vicious ' reference to a " prat who wears hats " was an in-joke directed towards Vicious ' friend and Sex Pistols band-mate John Lydon, who was fond of wearing different kinds of hats he would pick up at rummage sales.

While commission-centric sales tactics are often transparent, based on the price of the product being pushed by a salesperson, spiff-centric sales tactics are less noticeable, and may be perceived as dishonest salesmanship by consumers who are pushed towards a product when there is no evidence that the salesperson might be biased or influenced by monetary gain.