From the Census Bureau report:
Advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for July 2024, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, were $709.7 billion, an increase of 1.0% from the previous month, and up 2.7 percent from July 2023. ... The May 2024 to June 2024 percent change was revised from virtually unchanged to down 0.2 percent.
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Click on graph for larger image.This graph shows retail sales since 1992. This is monthly retail sales and food service, seasonally adjusted (total and ex-gasoline).
Retail sales ex-gasoline were up 1.0% in July.
The second graph shows the year-over-year change in retail sales and food service (ex-gasoline) since 1993.
Retail and Food service sales, ex-gasoline, increased by 2.9% on a YoY basis.
The change in sales in July was above expectations, however sales in May and June were revised down.