With full-year NPD Bookscan stats for 2019 now available, the AAP turns back the clock a little with the release of its October StatShot. Overall adult sales in October were $561 million, down from $583 million in 2018 (or $600 million in the original 2018 reporting, continuing the correction trend we have noted throughout 2019)….
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