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ADVANCE MONTHLY SALES FOR RETAIL AND FOOD SERVICES
June 2009
The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for June, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, were $342.1 billion, an increase of 0.6 percent (±0.5%) from the previous month, [LOL! The truth is otherwise, a 1.12% drop!], but 9.0 percent (±0.7%) below June 2008.
Total sales for the April through June 2009 period were down 9.6 percent (±0.5%) from the same period a year ago.
The April to May 2009 percent change was unrevised from 0.5 percent (±0.3%).
Retail trade sales were up 0.8 percent (±0.7%) from May 2009, but 10.0 percent (±0.7%) below last year.
Gasoline stations sales were down 31.6 percent (±1.5%) from June 2008 and motor vehicle and parts dealers sales were down 14.1 percent (±2.5%) 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. Percent Change in Retail and Food Services Sales
(Estimates adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes)
The Advance Monthly Sales for Retail and Food Services for July is scheduled to be released August 13, 2009 at 8:30 a.m. EDT.
