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Monthly Sales At a Glance

• Total Retail and Food Service Sales: $380.2 billion
• Monthly Change: Up 0.6%
• Annual Change: Up 5.0%
• Retail Sales: $342.5 billion

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ADVANCE MONTHLY SALES FOR RETAIL TRADE AND FOOD SERVICES

SEPTEMBER 2007

The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for September, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, were $380.2 billion, an increase of 0.6 percent (±0.5%) from the previous month and 5.0 percent (±0.8%) above September 2006. Total sales for the July through September 2007 period were up 4.2 percent (±0.5%) from the same period a year ago. The July to August 2007 percent change was unrevised from +0.3 percent (± 0.2%).

Retail trade sales were up 0.6 percent (±0.7%)* from August 2007 and were 5.0 percent (±0.8%) above last year. Gasoline station sales were up 9.6 percent (±3.1%) from September 2006 and sales of nonstore retailers were up 8.7 percent (±2.3%) from last year.

The advance estimates are based on a subsample of the Census Bureau’s full retail and food services sample. A stratified random sampling method is used to select approximately 5,000 retail and food services firms whose sales are then weighted and benchmarked to represent the complete universe of over three million retail and food services firms. Responding firms account for approximately 65% of the MARTS dollar volume estimate. For an explanation of the measures of sampling variability included in this report, please see the Reliability of Estimates section on the last page of this publication.

Retail Sales September 2007 [PDF]

Retail Sales September 2007 [Text]

Retail Sales September 2007 Table 1 [Excel]

Retail Sales September 2007 Table 2 [Excel]

Source: Commerce Department, Census Bureau