The company has reported four straight quarters of disappointing sales, noted Howard Penney, a restaurant analyst at Hedgeye Risk Management.
Yet, in several cases, supporters of the sales note that many of the works being offered had been in storage or were not on local display.
When Sales noted the answer did not make it clear how Morrison would personally vote, he replied: "I beg to differ.
For their part, analysts played down the significance of the October sales, noting that numbers overall were so low that the small increases overstated the progress.
Just after closing 2010 on a positive sales note, the auto industry began humming its old upbeat tune, accompanied by new cars and trucks it hoped can sustain the momentum and smooth any economic dips ahead.
"Jumby Bay has set itself apart from the rest of the Caribbean," said Andrew Robson, head of property sales, noting that cars are not allowed — everyone gets around on foot, bicycle, or electric golf cart.
The data included all residential land transfers and all arms-length transfers; all sales noted were ones in which the buyer and seller were not the same and the transaction was greater than $3,000.
Hardware sales — noted as "devices" in Gartner's table below — will be the fastest-growing category this year, up nearly 8% to $718 billion, or 19% of all IT spend.
Verizon revealed last week that it sold 2.7M iPhones during the second quarter, accounting for 45% of the company's smartphone sales (note: sales, rather than activations like with AT&T's numbers).
