Cold topic.

Cold Topic: It looks like City of Industry-based clothing retailer Hot Topic Inc. has a tough road ahead of it this summer. The company's stock dropped more than 20 percent last week on news that same-store sales Same-store sales is a business term which refers to the revenue generated by one of a retail chain's specific outlets during a certain period of time (often a fiscal quarter or a particular shopping season), compared to an identical period in the past, usually in the previous year. sank 7.2 percent during the start of the critical back-to-school sales season in July July: see month. . The news sent the stock of other teen apparel companies--including Abercrombie Not to be confused with Abercromby.

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In places:

Abercrombie, Fife, a village in Fife, Scotland
Abercrombie, Alabama, a place in the state of Alabama in the United States

& Fitch fitch: see polecat. Co., Gap Inc., and Zumiez Inc.--into the tank with it. Hot Topic hasn't posted a monthly same-store sales gain since March 2005.

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Title Annotation:	Hot Topic Inc.'s sales and stocks drops
Comment:	Cold topic.(Hot Topic Inc.'s sales and stocks drops)
Publication:	Los Angeles Business Journal
Article Type:	Brief article
Geographic Code:	1USA
Date:	Aug 7, 2006
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