1. But this year, to widespread surprise, the sales trend has turned downward. 2. But until recently, market research did not comprehensively track ethnic sales trends . 3. The lists of most-stolen vehicles usually lag sales trends by several years. 4. The sales trend is disturbing _ let's follow up on Wednesday ." 5. However, over the long term, decelerating sales trends will eventually catch up. 6. Payless officials declined to reveal same-store sales trends at those early conversions. 7. Some local wine merchants say they haven't seen a strong Francophobe sales trend . 8. Judging from recent sales trends , the marketing message has proved effective. 9. Publishers themselves piece together information about sales trends from a patchwork of sources. 10. There were some specialty retailers who bucked the poor sales trend .