Constrained shopping ahead of a later Easter holiday this year led to flat to lower sales at chain stores in the last week of March, reports said on Tuesday.
Sales were unchanged in the week ended April 1 after dipping by 1.6 percent in the prior week, said a report by the International Council of Shopping Centers and UBS Securities LLC. According to a separate report by Redbook Research, sales fell by 1.1 percent on a year-over-year basis for the week ended April 1, following a 2.2 percent rise in the prior week.
