Monthly Retail Trade

Advance Monthly Retail Trade Report

Statement Regarding COVID-19 Impact: The Census Bureau continues to monitor response and data quality and has determined that estimates in this release meet publication standards. For more information, see COVID-19 FAQs.

The June 2021 Advance Monthly Sales for Retail Trade and Food Services report was released on July 16, 2021 at 8:30 a.m., and available as:

• Full Publication in Excel [89KB] | PDF [316KB]
• Time Series (Adjusted Sales Data/Seasonal Factors—1992 to present)

Time Series/Trend Charts: Create your own customizable time series.

Monthly Retail Trade Report

Statement Regarding COVID-19 Impact: The Census Bureau continues to monitor response and data quality and has determined that estimates in this release meet publication standards. For more information, see COVID-19 FAQs.

The May 2021 Monthly Retail Trade and Food Services report was released on July 16, 2021 at 8:30 a.m. for sales and 10:00 a.m. for inventories, and available as:

• Retail and Food Services Sales: Excel (1992-present) [750KB]
• Retail Inventories and Inventories/Sales Ratios: Excel (1992-present) [465KB]
• Adjustment Factors for Seasonal and Other Variations of Monthly Estimates: Sales [8KB] | Inventories [3KB]
• Reliability of Monthly Estimates: Sales [13KB] | Inventories [3KB]
• Annual Revision of Monthly Retail and Food Services: Sales and Inventories--January 1992 through March 2021

Time Series/Trend Charts: Create your own customizable time series.

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: The Supplemental Tables provided below are currently an experimental product. Explanatory Material for these experimental statistics and specific recommendations for interpreting these statistics are described here. The Census Bureau invites users to provide feedback on how to improve this experimental product.

The 1st Quarter 2021 Retail E-Commerce Sales Report was released on May 18, 2021 at 10:00 a.m., and available as:

• Full 1Q 2021 Publication in PDF [221KB]
• 1Q 2021 Publication Tables available in Excel Format: Table 1 [31KB] | Table 2 [36KB]
  
• 1Q 2021 Publication Tables available as delimited text: Table 1 [1KB] | Table 2 [1KB]

• Time Series available in Excel Format: Adjusted Sales [46KB] | Not Adjusted Sales [46KB]
  
• Time Series available as delimited text: Adjusted Sales [5KB] | Not Adjusted Sales [5KB]

Supplemental Quarterly E-Commerce Tables

• 1Q 2021 E-commerce Tables in Excel Format: Tables [85KB]
  
• Time Series Tables in Excel Format: Tables [79KB]
  
• Explanatory Material

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