1.   But the company may have moved faster than its market, causing its storage sales to flatten in the last two years.

2.   If sales flatten, there could be an indefinite delay.

3.   Industrywide, tie sales have flattened as more men gravitate toward business-casual clothing.

4.   Its sales have flattened recently, though, as more options have hit the market.

5.   Over the past six years, sales have flattened or declined in five of six Southern lotteries.

6.   Polaroid has struggled to find new growth as film sales have flattened and domestic interest in instant photography waned.

7.   Sales flattened and inventory backed up, resulting in large write-offs.

8.   There are also concerns that sales have flattened at the Disney Stores and by licensees.

9.   Wallpaper sales have flattened, particularly among young Americans, and designer paints marketed under the names of Martha Stewart and Ralph Lauren might be partly to blame.