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Monthly Retail Trade


Advance Monthly Retail Trade Report

The April 2022 Advance Monthly Sales for Retail Trade and Food Services report was released on May 17, 2022 at 8:30 a.m., and available as:

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Monthly Retail Trade Report

The March 2022 Monthly Retail Trade and Food Services report was released on May 17, 2022 at 8:30 a.m. for sales and 10:00 a.m. for inventories, and available as:

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NOW AVAILABLE! New monthly state retail sales data were published as an experimental data product for the first time on September 30, 2020. Please visit here for the data, interactive visualization, and documentation.


Latest Quarterly E-Commerce Report

Special Notice: As of the 4th Quarter 2021 release on February 18, 2022, the Supplemental Tables provided below are now a standard data product. Explanatory Material for these statistics and specific recommendations for interpreting these statistics are described here.

The 1st Quarter 2022 Retail E-Commerce Sales Report was released on May 19, 2022 at 10:00 a.m., and available as:

  • Full 1Q 2022 Publication in PDF [384KB]
  • 1Q 2022 Publication Tables available in Excel Format: Table 1 [31KB] | Table 2 [36KB]
  • 1Q 2022 Publication Tables available as delimited text: Table 1 [1KB] | Table 2 [1KB]

Supplemental Quarterly E-Commerce Tables

An Explanation of Benchmarking Revisions for E-Commerce Estimates can be found here.


Announcements

  • Notice: Due to a processing error, the Retail and Food Services Sales excel file released as part of the Annual Revision release on Monday, April 25 at 10:00 a.m. EDT was updated with a new version as of April 25 at 12:45 p.m. EDT. Please note this update did not impact any data in the Time Series/Trend Charts or API.
  • Notice of Revision: Monthly retail sales, inventories, and inventories-to-sales ratios estimates were revised to reflect the results of the 2020 Annual Retail Trade Survey and the Service Annual Survey. Revised not adjusted estimates and corresponding adjusted estimates were released on April 25, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. EDT.
  • FRED Mobile App: Receive the latest updates on the nation's key economic indicators by downloading the FRED App for both Apple and Android devices. FRED, the signature database of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, now incorporates the Census Bureau's 13 economic indicators.
  • API: The URL for the economic indicators data in the Census Bureau API (Application Programming Interface) has been updated to add /timeseries/. Examples can be found on the Developers' webpage.

Release Schedule

The Upcoming Release Dates are below:

  • Advance Monthly (May 2022) releases June 15, 2022 at 8:30 a.m. EDT. Click here to access the 2021/2022 Release Schedule.
  • Monthly (April 2022) Sales releases June 15, 2022 at 8:30 a.m. EDT, and Inventories releases June 15, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. EDT. Click here to access the 2021/2022 Release Schedule.
  • Quarterly E-Commerce (2nd Quarter 2022) releases August 19, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. EDT. Click here to access the 2021/2022 Release Schedule.

Contact Us

For Advance Monthly Retail, Monthly Retail, and Quarterly E-Commerce:

  • For Survey Processing,
    Email Us!
    Call us: (301)763-2713
  • For Survey Methodology,
    Call us: (301)763-2713
  • For Seasonal Adjustment,
    Call us: (301)763-7186
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau | Monthly Retail Trade | (301) 763-2713 |  Last Revised: May 27, 2022