NEW YORK, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Redbook Research on Tuesday released the following seasonally adjusted weekly data on U.S. chain store sales:

Year-over-year: Week (w/e 02/09/2013) +2.4 pct

Year-over-year:Month (Feb 2013 vs Feb 2012) +2.4 pct

Month-over-month: (Feb 2013 vs Jan 2013) +1.1 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.

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