Why Dominos Pizza Sales Start to Go Cold

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"But it was in the short term what we saw from the aggregates, a huge increase in advertising costs and pushed around for free and discounted deliveries," Domino's Pizza CEO Richard Allison told Wall Street analysts at a conference call. Wednesday.

Allison did its best to explain the investment community why – despite the fact that US same store sales are rising for the 32nd straight quarter – they were perhaps slightly lighter than expectations.

Allison said that discounting of third-party services drove new orders among consumers in urban and suburban markets. "I think [this] led to a slightly larger impact on our same store growth than maybe it did in previous years."

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Dull stock performance

Under Allison, the stock has mostly been limited. At the closing price of $ 292 on Tuesday, the shares are constantly high above $ 300 and below the price when Doyle left as CEO.

For the most part, the weak performance could be attributed to Domino's slower US store sales in the hands of more aggressive food generators. Dominos US same store sales have increased since peaking in the third quarter of 2016 (+ 13.6%), with a growth of 3.9% in the first quarter of this year.

Interestingly, Allison doesn't seem to chase the food appliances down the rabbit hole by offering aggressive discounts.

"When we think of our longer view and what we eventually do with it, it really is unchanged, if not it is repeated," Allison said. [19659010] Allison added: "So it's hard to imagine that today's approach is sustainable in the long run, but we don't know we have to see how it plays out. What is clear to us is that our strategy must remain the same. The same, and it will continue to consolidate the markets we operate in. It helps us win the service, it helps us win with our drivers by getting more races – and it helps us continue to build it very important and profitable the implementation that we have been talking about for a long time. "

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