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Kohl’s, Dick’s Add to Retail Worries With Weak Outlooks

A shopper carries a Kohl's bag outside the company's store in Pleasant Hill, California.Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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Kohl’s Corp. and Dick’s Sporting Goods Inc. added to the flood of companies raising concerns about the US consumer.

Comparable sales at Kohl’s are expected to drop as much as 6% this year, far exceeding Wall Street’s projections. Dick’s also disappointedBloomberg Terminal, with the low end of its sales forecast and earnings guidance trailing the average of analysts’ estimates.