Lee was an overconfident project manager, and failed by not having a better sales plan once he had so many potential customers at his event.

But that improvement comes mainly from severe cost-cutting, not better sales.

Production for both Canada and Mexico continued due to better sales in those two countries.

"The machines cut the cashier process from two or three minutes to 30 seconds, and we keep better sales records."

But she saw one area of improvement - better sales for women's apparel.

Retailers with pretty good private label brands will be able to create better sales opportunities for themselves.

To be sure, these are some of the very qualities people love it for, but that doesn't always translate in to better sales.

Dealers added that consumer confidence remained the biggest obstacle to better sales.

"And we would like to see better sales growth."

With sales 4pc better than last year, we created enough cash to keep expanding.