Coresight Bites: US Retail Traffic—Strength in Apparel While Home Dips

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• The Coresight Research US Retail Traffic and In-Store Metrics series reviews year-over-year changes in selected store-based metrics, as reported by RetailNext.
• In April 2022, apparel was the strongest sector, with traffic increasing by 34.4% year over year.
• The home sector continued to witness the softest traffic trends among the five published sectors, decreasing by 4.8% year over year—the only sector with negative growth.

Coresight Research’s monthly reports keep you up to date on retail sales (in total and by sector) and key consumer indicators, focusing on the US, the UK and China.

Complementing our monthly reports, the Coresight Research US Retail Sales Databank brings together retail sales data to help you understand the scale and trajectory of US retail.

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