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Retail Sales

What Americans spent at stores and restaurants each month.

$757B
Millions of dollars · latest, Apr 2026
2001 RecessionGlobal Financial CrisisCOVID-19 Recession$200B$300B$400B$500B$600B$700B1995200020052010201520202025

Source: FRED · RSAFS · series · Jan 1992 to Apr 2026 · latest-revised

Reading it. Nominal dollars, not inflation-adjusted. Advance estimate, revised later.

About the bands. Shaded spans are NBER-dated US recessions, drawn as factual overlays. They mark when the economy contracted, not why. Lining an event or policy up with a move on this chart is not evidence that it caused the move.