Over all, same-store sales for June were off 5 percent from the month a year earlier.

Same-store sales were up 11 percent in both April and the three months.

For the third quarter, those same-store sales were down 3 percent from a year ago.

In May, 13 of the 20 said that same-store sales rose.

The category as a whole had only a 1.4 percent same-store sales increase, though.

Same-store sales, those for stores open at least a year, have been down.

His company saw a 7 percent increase in same-store sales last year, and he expects to hit that range again.

The Limited, on the other hand, reported a 6 percent increase in same-store sales, but its stock hardly moved.

Further, the company reported that its same-store sales decreased 7.4 percent last year.

"But only rising same-store sales would get this stock price up right now."