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Advance Retail Sales: Retail Trade and Food Services

Series RSAFS — Retail sales (advance).

Latest value: $745,021 million for September 2026, +6.3% year over year (against September 2025). 129 monthly observations from January 2016 to September 2026, in millions of US dollars. Source: FRED (FRED route); context series, not an input to the Nowflation CPI Gauge.

Latest observations

PeriodValue
September 2026$745,021 million
August 2026$739,322 million
July 2026$729,915 million
June 2026$732,898 million
May 2026$731,415 million
April 2026$723,921 million
March 2026$719,700 million
February 2026$707,959 million
January 2026$701,860 million
December 2025$706,264 million
November 2025$705,453 million
October 2025$700,790 million

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Cite: Nowflation, “Advance Retail Sales: Retail Trade and Food Services” (RSAFS), data from FRED, retrieved October 18, 2026, https://nowflation.com/series/RSAFS. The series at its source: FRED.

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