If you are looking to reassure yourself as Barnes & Noble heads into the crucial holiday sales period, then here is what you will focus on in the company’s fiscal second quarter earnings report this morning. Same-store sales fell by only 1.4 percent, which the company calls a “significant improvement” and touts as their “best quarterly performance since the fourth quarter of fiscal 2016.” With a low bar set after some poor holidays — down 6.4 percent last Christmas, following a 9.1 percent same-store decline for Christmas 2016 — the company expects to see “continued sales improvement during the holiday […]
