Walmart 上げるs 見通し as 支援する-to-school sales return
NEW YORK (AP) - Walmart raised its sales 見通し for the year as Americans returned to shopping for 支援する-to-school 着せる／賦与するs and travel goods during the second ４半期/4分の1.
Still, 関心s are 開始するing over how shoppers will behave in the months ahead as the delta variant of COVID-19 殺到するs across the U.S. and mask 委任統治（領）s are 復帰させるd. On 最高の，を越す of that, higher prices on everything from food to automobiles are making shoppers more conscious about spending. And 一時的な 政府 刺激 and other 利益s, which helped 支え（る） up 全体にわたる spending, are dissipating.
Other major retailers are 報告（する）／憶測ing 年４回の results this week and next, and there is 早期に 証拠 that 行為s that changed vastly during the pandemic, have begun to change again, or at least 標準的にする／正常にする.
Data from Home 倉庫・駅, which also 報告（する）／憶測d 収入s Tuesday, showed that traffic in 蓄える／店s fell a bit after a 大規模な 急ぐ of DIY 事業／計画（する）s during lockdowns. At Walmart, the blistering growth in online orders has slowed 徹底的に.
Also on Tuesday, the U.S. 報告（する）／憶測d that 小売 sales in July fell a seasonal adjusted 1.1%. It was a much larger 減少（する） than the 0.3% 拒絶する／低下する 塀で囲む Street 分析家s had 推定する／予想するd. によれば Tuesday´s 報告（する）／憶測, spending fell at 蓄える／店s that sell 着せる／賦与するing, furniture and 冒険的な goods.
"There is now a very （疑いを）晴らす 調印する that the 勢い, which has propelled the 部門 over the few months or so, is slowing and that growth 率s are 穏健なing as a result," said Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData 小売. "To be （疑いを）晴らす, this is not 壊滅的な and it in no way signals anything 近づく a 収縮過程 for 小売."
FILE - In this July 30, 2020 とじ込み／提出する photo, shoppers wear 直面する masks as they leave a Walmart 蓄える／店 in Vernon Hills, Ill. Walmart is 逆転するing its mask 政策, Friday, July 30, 2021, and will 要求する vaccinated 労働者s in its 配当 中心s and 蓄える／店s in areas to wear masks in areas with high 感染 率s of the ウイルス. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, とじ込み／提出する)
Saunders 公式文書，認めるd that the 貯金 率 remains high, which means "better-off 世帯s" still have a 衝撃を和らげるもの of cash.
It was yet another strong ４半期/4分の1 for Walmart, which has been able to 保持する 顧客s who rely on its 蓄える／店s, curbside 好転 services, 同様に as 配達／演説／出産.
Walmart 報告（する）／憶測d 収入s of $4.27 billion, or $1.52 per 株, during the three-month period ended July 31. Adjusted results were $1.78 per 株, better than the $1.57 per 株 that 分析家s had 推定する／予想するd, によれば FactSet.
逮捕する 利益（をあげる） last year was $6.47 billion, or $1.77 adjusted per 株.
Sales in the most 最近の ４半期/4分の1 rose 2.2% to $139.87 billion, also better than the $137. billion 産業 分析家s 推定する／予想するd.
類似の sales at U.S. 蓄える／店s rose 5.2%, a bit of a 減産／沈滞 from the 6% 増加する in the first ４半期/4分の1. Online sales growth 劇的な slowed to 6%, but that's compared with last year when the pandemic shocked the U.S., and Walmart's online orders 殺到するd 97%. There was a 37% 増加する in the first ４半期/4分の1 and 69% 増加する in the fourth ４半期/4分の1.
Company (n)役員／(a)執行力のあるs told 分析家s Tuesday that shoppers went to 蓄える／店s for items like party 供給（する）s, luggage and 着せる／賦与するing. For 支援する-to-school, 顧客s bought backpacks and paper 供給（する）s in 新規加入 to fashion.
Walmart is 直面するing rising costs for everything from labor to shipping as 供給（する） chain 支援する-ups 攻撃する，衝突する companies 世界的な. Brett Biggs, Walmart's 長，指導者 財政上の officer, said Tuesday that the company is 監視するing 輸送 and port 延期するs. The company is also 借り切る／憲章ing 大型船s for Walmart goods as it 長，率いるs into the 落ちる and holiday shipping crunch, Biggs said.
Home 倉庫・駅 also has 安全な・保証するd its own transportation and アマゾン.com has long 押し進めるd for 自治 in shipping.
Walmart now says that it 推定する／予想するs sales at 蓄える／店s opened at least a year to be up 5% to 6% for the year; it had 以前 said the metric would be up in the low 選び出す／独身 digits.
株 of Home 倉庫・駅 fell more than 4%, or $14.30 to $320.74, while Walmart´s 在庫／株 rose 26 cents to $150.99
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AP 商売／仕事 Writers Joseph Pisani and Michelle Chapman 与える／捧げるd to this 報告（する）／憶測.
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