From the Census Bureau report:
Advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for September 2024, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, were $714.4 billion, an increase of 0.4 percent from the previous month, and up 1.7 percent from September 2023. … The July 2024 to August 2024 percent change was unrevised from up 0.1 percent.
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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 was up 0.6% in August.
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 September was above expectations, and sales in July and August were revised up, combined.