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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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This chart presents monthly total retail sales in billions of US dollars, shown alongside sales from the same month in the prior year and the resulting year-over-year percentage changes. The default view covers the most recent 24 months, with filtering options to adjust the period and select retail sectors.
Grocery retailers are a subset of food and beverage retailers. Department store retailers are a subset of general merchandise retailers. *The food and beverage stores sector also includes the following subsectors that are not tabulated: specialty food stores; beer, wine and liquor stores. **The general merchandise stores sector also includes the following subsectors that are not tabulated: warehouse clubs and supercenters; all other general merchandise stores. Source: US Census Bureau/Coresight Research
About this table
This table presents monthly retail sales values in billions of US dollars, organized by sector. The default view displays the most recent 13 months. Dropdown options allow users to adjust the period, and expandable sectors are marked with a “+” in the left-hand column.
Data are not seasonally adjusted. Grocery retailers are a subset of food and beverage retailers. Department store retailers are a subset of general merchandise retailers *The food and beverage stores sector also includes the following subsectors that are not tabulated: specialty food stores; beer, wine and liquor stores. **The general merchandise stores sector also includes the following subsectors that are not tabulated: warehouse clubs and supercenters; all other general merchandise stores. Source: US Census Bureau/Coresight Research
This table shows year-over-year percentage changes in retail sales values by sector. The default view includes the most recent 13 months, with dropdown options available to modify the period. Expandable sectors are indicated by a “+” in the left-hand column.
This chart displays annual total retail sales in billions of US dollars, along with the corresponding year-over-year percentage changes. By default, it shows total retail sales excluding automobile and auto-accessories retailers and gasoline stations. A dropdown option allows users to select alternative retail sectors.
This chart illustrates annual total retail sales values broken out by sector. The default view shows 2025 year-to-date performance, and a dropdown option allows users to switch to previous years.
Furniture and home-furnishing retailers: Retailers that sell furniture, home furnishings, floor coverings and major home appliances and electronics. Some may offer interior decorating services along with the sale of products.
Electronics and appliance retailers: Retailers that sell household and consumer electronics, such as household appliances, home entertainment systems, computers, computer peripherals, mobile phones, gaming consoles and others.
Home-improvement and gardening retailers: Retailers that sell home-improvement and garden equipment and supplies.
Food and beverage retailers: Retailers that sell fresh and processed food, such as supermarkets, convenience stores, specialty food stores, markets (for meat, fish, fruit and vegetables), baked goods stores, confectionery stores and liquor stores.
Grocery retailers: A subsector of food and beverage retailers that includes supermarkets and convenience stores, which retail general lines of food.
Health and personal care retailers: Retailers that primarily sell personal care products, beauty products, medicines, supplements and optical goods. Drugstore retailers and pharmacies, beauty shops and perfume retailers are part of this sector.
Sporting goods, hobby, musical instrument and book retailers: Retailers that sell sporting equipment (including fitness equipment, camping gear, bicycles, athletic uniforms and specialty sports footwear), toys, games, musical instruments, hobby and craft supplies, and books.
Clothing, footwear and accessories retailers: Retailers that sell women’s, men’s and children’s clothing, accessories (such as hats, gloves, handbags, ties and belts), footwear, jewelry, and luggage and leather goods.
General merchandise retailers: Retailers that sell many lines of products. Department stores, discount department stores, warehouse clubs, supercenters and variety stores fall within this sector.
Department stores: A subsector of general merchandise retailers. Retailers within this group sell a wide range of products, including apparel, footwear, appliances, home furnishings, jewelry, toys and beauty products.
Miscellaneous retailers: Retailers include florists; office supplies and stationery retailers; gift and novelty retailers; used-merchandise retailers; pet and pet supplies retailers; art dealers; mobile home dealers; and tobacco retailers.
Nonstore retailers: Retailers include electronic shopping and mail order houses, vending-machine operators, direct-selling businesses and fuel dealers, among other direct-selling businesses such as in-home retailers and those that sell from a truck or wagon. This sector also includes online sales from some store-based retailers that separate this business from their store-based operations.
Data on this page are based on non seasonally adjusted data published by the US Census Bureau.
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The Coresight Research US Retail Sales Databank brings together retail sales data to help you understand the scale and trajectory of US retail. Our Databank provides easy access to retail sales in total and by sector, by year and by month, in dollar terms and in year-over-year growth.
Also see our Market Sizes Databank for yearly total retail sector size projections for the US and nine other countries.
The US Retail Sales Databank includes:
We chart annual retail sales and year-over-year percentage changes for the following retail sectors. Descriptions for these sectors are provided after the charts.
