Monthly & Annual Retail Trade

Advance Monthly Retail Trade Report

The May 2009 Advance Monthly Sales for Retail Trade and Food Services report was released on June 11, 2009 at 8:30 a.m., and available as:

• Full Publication in HTML | PDF [69KB]
• Publication Text in HTML
• Current Publication Tables in Excel Format: Table 1 [67KB] | Table 2 [48KB] | Table 3 [35KB]
• Current Publication Tables in Text Format: Table 1 | Table 2 | Table 3
• Time Series (Adjusted Sales Data/Seasonal Factors—1992 to present)

Monthly Retail Trade Report

The April 2009 Monthly Retail Trade and Food Services report was released on June 11, 2009 at 8:45 a.m. (Sales) and 10:15 a.m. (Inventories), and available as:

• Retail and Food Services Sales: Excel (1992-present) [708KB]
• Retail Inventories and Inventories/Sales Ratios: Excel (1992-present) [330KB]
• Adjustment Factors for Seasonal and Other Variations of Monthly Estimates: Sales | Inventories
• Reliability of Monthly Estimates: Sales | Inventories
• Annual Revision of Monthly Retail and Food Services: Sales and Inventories--January 1992 through March 2009

Latest Annual Retail Trade Report

Notice of Revision Revisions to the Annual Retail Trade estimates were released on March 31, 2009 at 10:00 am. Estimates were revised to reflect the results of the 2007 Annual Retail Trade Survey. Revised 2007 E-Commerce sales will be released in May 2009.

• Annual Retail Trade Survey—2007:
  Sales: Excel [45KB] | PDF [19KB]
  Inventories: Excel [27KB] | PDF [10KB]
  Purchases: Excel [33KB] | PDF [13KB]
  Expenses: Excel [30KB] | PDF [14KB] (2007 available in July 2009)
  Gross Margin: Excel [33KB] | PDF [14KB]
  Gross Margin as Percent of Sales: Excel [33KB] | PDF [13KB]
  Accounts Receivable: Excel [29KB] | PDF [11KB]
  Per Capita Sales: Excel [29KB] | PDF [11KB]
  Inventories Held Inside and Outside the U.S.: Excel [28KB] | PDF [11KB]
• Annual Accommodation and Food Services—2007:
  Sales: Excel [25KB] | PDF [10KB]
• Measures of Sampling Variability—2007:
  Annual Sales, Inventories, Purchases, Expenses, and Gross Margin: Excel [46KB] | PDF [20KB]
  End-of-Year Accounts Receivable: Excel [27KB] | PDF [14KB]
  Inventories Held Inside and Outside the U.S.: Excel [27KB] | PDF [10KB]
• Summary of Changes

Latest Quarterly E-Commerce Report

The 1st Quarter 2009 Retail E-Commerce Sales Report was released on May 15, 2009, and available as:

• Full 1Q 2009 Publication in HTML | PDF [99KB]
• Individual 1Q 2009 Tables available in HTML: Table 1 | Table 2 | Table 3 | Table 4
  Individual 1Q 2009 Tables available as delimited text: Table 1 | Table 2 | Table 3 | Table 4

• Explanation of Benchmarking Revisions for E-Commerce Estimates