US chain store sales +3.5 pct last week-Redbook

NEW YORK, Jan (Reuters) - Redbook Research on Tuesday released the following seasonally adjusted weekly data on U.S.chain store sales:

Year-over-year: Week (w/e 1/01/11) +3.5 pct
Year-over-year:Month (Dec 2010 vs Dec 2009) +3.6 pct
Month-over-month: (Dec 2010 vs Nov 2010) +0.4 pct
The Johnson Redbook Retail Sales Index is a sales-weighted index of year-over-year same-store sales growth in a sample of large U.S. general merchandise retailers representing about 9,000 stores.