United States Retail Sales Mom

Last Release

Feb 28, 2025

Actual

0.2

Units In

-1.2

Frequency

Monthly

Next Release

Apr 16, 2025

Time to Release

28 Days 11 Hours

Highest	Lowest	Average	Date Range	Source
18.2 May 2020	-14.7 Apr 2020	0.39 %	1992-2025	U.S. Census Bureau

Retail sales report in the US provides aggregated measure of sales of retail goods and services over a period of a month. There are thirteen major types of retailers: Motor vehicle & parts dealers (around 20 percent of total sales), Food & beverage stores (13%), General merchandise stores (12.5%), Food services & drinking places (11%), Gasoline stations (10%), Nonstore retailers (9.2%), Building material & garden dealers (6%), Health & personal care stores (6%), Clothing & clothing accessories stores (5%), Miscellaneous store retailers (2.3%), Furniture stores (2%), Electronics & appliance stores (2%) and Sporting goods, hobby, book & music stores (1.7%).

Latest Updates

Retail sales in the US increased 0.2% mom in February 2025, rebounding from a downwardly revised 1.2% fall in January but well below forecasts of a 0.6% rise. Seven of the report’s 13 categories saw declines: food services & drinking places (-1.5%), gasoline stations (-1%), clothing (-0.6%), motor vehicle & parts dealers (-0.4%), sporting goods, hobby, musical instrument, & book stores (-0.4%), miscellaneous store retailers (-0.3%) and electronics & appliance stores (-0.3%). In contrast, sales at nonstore retailers recorded the biggest increase (2.4%), followed by health & personal care stores (1.7%), food & beverage (0.4%), general merchandise (0.2%) and building material (0.2%). Sales at furniture stores stalled. Meanwhile, sales excluding food services, auto dealers, building materials stores and gasoline stations, which are used to calculate GDP, jumped 1%, reversing a downwardly revised 1% fall in January and much better than forecasts of a 0.2% rise.