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Advance Monthly Sales for Retail and Food Services, August 2026
Published by U.S. Census Bureau on September 16, 2026.
August retail sales, released the morning of the rate decision.
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… <div class="richtext"> <br><br><strong>Advance Estimates of U.S. Retail and Food Services </strong><br /> Advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for August 2026, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, were $773.9 billion, up 1.2 percent (±0.4 percent) from the previous month, and up 6.0 percent (±0.5 percent) from August 2025. Total sales for the June 2026 through August 2026 period were up 6.0 percent (±0.5 percent) from the same period a year ago. The June 2026 to July 2026 percent change was revised from down 0.6 percent (±0.4 percent) to down 0.5 percent (±0.2 percent). </div> …
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