The US leather apparel and accessories retailer Wilsons The Leather Experts Inc. has posted a 5.7% decline in same store sales for October 2002, to $58.7 million.

Of the total, sales at the company's Wilsons Leather (i.e. non travel) stores were down 6.2% on the year before. However, there was some good news in that its travel store sales were down by only 1.3%, versus the 34.0% decline seen in October 2001, in the wake of the US terrorist attacks.

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