And in the first six months of 2003, the value of DVD rentals at video stores outpaced VHS tape rentals for the first time, according to the Video Software Dealers Association.
This is also the first time that digital music stores outpaced physical stores for album sales.
Analysts said that luxury stores had outpaced discount and midtier stores in sales growth at stores open at least a year for most of 2011.
Although Mr. Nardelli did not attribute all of Home Depot's gains to its marketing toward women, he did say during a conference call with reporters that the company's remodeled stores had outpaced others.
Because of the advance of technology, storage becomes cheaper and cheaper year after year and when our ability to store data outpaces the expense of creating that data, we end up with things that are no longer held for short-term periods, they're held for long-term periods and then they're held for a longer term period.
The opening of new stores has rapidly outpaced the closure of old ones.
As for the online shopping, which has outpaced in-store sales this year, the marketing research company comScore indicated that online sales increased 12 percent in the first 49 days of the holiday season, to $28.36 billion, compared with the same period last year.
While small business openings have continued to outpace big store openings, says Campanella, overall numbers have slowed down.
Gap rivals like American Apparel, Abercrombie & Fitch and Urban Outfitters have outpaced Gap in store unit growth, climbing 40% since 2001.
The company said it outpaced expected same-store sales with a 2.4% gain over June of last year, beating the 0.8% predicted by analysts polled by Thomson Financial.
As it was, Sony's unadventurous store and network offerings were quickly outpaced by indie coders, who wasted no time turning the relatively easy-to-jailbreak PSP into a bustling homebrew platform.
