That kind of cross-category performance boded well, for example, for Macy???s Inc.???s Macys.com, which falls into all of those categories except sporting goods and reported a 39.1% year-over-year rise in December 2008 sales.For the entire November-December holiday season, Macys.com???s sales rose 26% over the year-ago period, while same-store sales fell 7.5%.