Retail Sales in the United States increased 0.20 percent in September of 2025 over the previous month. This dataset provides - U.S. December Retail Sales Increased More Than Forecast - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

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Context

The Monthly State Retail Sales (MSRS) is the Census Bureau's new experimental data product featuring modeled state-level retail sales. This is a blended data product using Monthly Retail Trade Survey data, administrative data, and third-party data. Year-over-year percentage changes are available for Total Retail Sales excluding Non-store Retailers as well as 11 retail North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) retail subsectors. These data are provided by state and NAICS codes beginning with January 2019.

Content

Geography: US

Time period: 2019 - 2022

Unit of analysis: US Census Bureau's Monthly State Retail Sales Data

Variables

Acknowledgements

Datasource: United States Census Bureau's Monthly State Retail Sales

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This dataset, identified by the series ID RSXFS, is sourced from the U.S. Census Bureau and is available through the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) system of the St. Louis Fed. It provides a monthly measure of retail sales across the United States. The data represents the total value of sales at retail and food services stores, measured in millions of dollars and adjusted for seasonal variations. It is important to note that the most recent month's value is an advance estimate, which is subject to revision in subsequent months as more comprehensive data becomes available. As a key economic indicator, this series is widely used by economists and analysts to gauge consumer spending and assess the overall health of the U.S. economy.

Suggested Use Cases: - This dataset is highly valuable for economic analysis and can be used to: - Conduct time series analysis and modeling. - Track consumer spending patterns. - Forecast future retail sales. - Analyze the impact of economic events on the retail sector.

License The RSXFS dataset is sourced from the U.S. Census Bureau and is considered Public Domain: Citation Requested. This means the data is freely available for use, but you must cite the source and acknowledge that the data was obtained from FRED. If you plan on using any copyrighted series from other data providers on FRED for commercial purposes, you would need to contact the original data owner for permission.

Data Fields: The dataset primarily contains two columns: - observation_date: The date of the monthly data point, recorded as the first day of each month from January 1992 to July 2025. - RSXFS: The value of advance retail sales in millions of dollars.

Citation and Provenance:
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
Release: Advance Monthly Sales for Retail and Food Services
FRED Link: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RSXFS
Citation: U.S. Census Bureau, Advance Retail Sales: Retail Trade [RSXFS], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RSXFS, September 8, 2025.

View monthly updates and historical trends for US Real Retail Sales. from United States. Source: Census Bureau. Track economic data with YCharts analytics.

Graph and download economic data for Advance Retail Sales: Retail Trade (RSXFS) from Jan 1992 to Aug 2025 about retail trade, sales, retail, services, and USA.

This statistic shows a trend in total retail sales, including food services, in the United States from January 2017 to July 2025. In July 2025, U.S. retail sales had amounted to an estimated *********** U.S. dollars (not adjusted), which is an increase of approximately ** ******* U.S. dollars compared to the same month one year earlier.

Data Overview

• Scale: All sales figures are reported in millions of dollars.
• Size: The dataset contains 40,479 rows and 5 columns.
• Time Frame: January 1992 - September 2024.
• Industries Covered: Over 60 industries, including food, clothing, footwear, office supplies, automobiles, electronics, books, beverages, furniture, grocery and many more.
• Attributes:
  • naics_code
  • kind_of_business
  • sales_month
  • sales
  • estimate_type
• Source: This dataset was sourced from the publicly available U.S. Census Bureau retail sales data.

Cleaning & Preprocessing

• Missing Values:
  Some entries contained (NA) and (S) values, which were converted to null values.
  • (S): Estimate does not meet publication standards due to high sampling variability (coefficient of variation greater than 30%) or poor response quality (low total quantity response rate).
• Formatting:
  The downloaded data included headings, subheadings, and notes embedded within the tables. These extraneous elements were removed to ensure a clean and consistent dataset.
• Data Compilation:
  The original dataset was spread across multiple sheets, with each sheet containing data for a specific year. These sheets were consolidated into a single, unified table.
• Feature Engineering:
  A new column was created to provide both seasonally adjusted and non-seasonally adjusted sales values, enabling more nuanced analysis. Estimates are adjusted for seasonal variations, as well as holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes.

Use Cases

This dataset can be applied to a variety of analytical and machine learning tasks, including:

• Data Cleaning: Practice handling missing values, stray entries, and working with datetime data.
• Time Series Analysis: Perform trend analysis, seasonality detection, and forecasting.
• Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA): Gain insights into industry-specific trends and patterns.
• Machine Learning: Use it for predictive modeling and classification tasks.
• Market Research: Analyze industry performance to inform business strategies.

Online Retail Sales and Customer Data

Transactional Data with Product and Customer Details in Online Retail

By Marc Szafraniec [source]

About this dataset

The InvoiceNo column holds unique identifiers for each transaction conducted. This numerical code serves a twofold purpose: it facilitates effortless identification of individual sales or purchases while simultaneously enabling treasury management by offering a repository for record keeping.

In concordance with the invoice number is the InvoiceDate column. It provides a date-time stamp associated with every transaction, which can reveal patterns in purchasing behaviour over time and assists with record-keeping requirements.

The StockCode acts as an integral part of this dataset; it encompasses alphanumeric sequences allocated distinctively to every item in stock. Such a system aids unequivocally identifying individual products making inventory records seamless.

The Description field offers brief elucidations about each listed product, adding layers beyond just stock codes to aid potential customers' understanding of products better and make more informed choices.

Detailed logs concerning sold quantities come under the Quantity banner - it lists the units involved per transaction alongside aiding calculations regarding total costs incurred during each sale/purchase offering significant help tracking inventory levels based on products' outflow dynamics within given periods.

Retail isn't merely about what you sell but also at what price you sell- A point acknowledged via our inclusion of unit prices exerted on items sold within transactions inside our dataset's UnitPrice column which puts forth pertinent pricing details serving as pivotal factors driving metrics such as gross revenue calculation etc

Finally yet importantly is our dive into foreign waters - literally! With impressive international outreach we're looking into segmentation bases like geographical locations via documenting countries (under the name Country) where transactions are conducted & consumers reside extending opportunities for businesses to map their customer bases, track regional performance metrics, extend localization efforts and overall contributing to the formulation of efficient segmentation strategies.

All this invaluable information can be found in a sortable CSV file titled online_retail.csv. This dataset will prove incredibly advantageous for anyone interested in or researching online sales trends, developing customer profiles, or gaining insights into effective inventory management practices

How to use the dataset

Identifying Products: StockCode is the unique identifier for each product. You can use it to identify individual products, track their sales, or discover patterns related to specific items.

Assessing Sales Volume: Quantity column tells you about the number of units of a product involved in each transaction. Along with InvoiceNo, you can analyze overall sales volume or specific purchases throughout your selected period.

Observing Price Fluctuations: By using the UnitPrice, not only can the total cost per transaction be calculated (by multiplying with Quantity), but also insightful observations like price fluctuations over time or determining most profitable items could be derived.

Analyzing Description Patterns/Trends: The Description field sheds light upon what kind of products are being traded. This could provide some inspiration for text analysis like term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF), sentiment analysis on descriptions, etc., to figure out popular trends at given times.

Analysing Geographical Trends: With the help of Country column, geographical trends in sales volumes across different nations can easily be analyzed i.e., which location has more customers or which country orders more quantity or expensive units based on unit price and quantity columns respectively.

Keep in mind that proper extraction and transformation methodology should be applied while handling data from different columns as per their datatypes (textual/alphanumeric/numeric) requirements.

This dataset not only allows retailers to gain an immediate understanding into their operations but could also serve as a base dataset for those interested in machine learning regarding predicting future transactions

Research Ideas

• Inventory Management: By tracking the 'Quantity' and 'StockCode' over time, a business could use this data to notice if certain products are frequently purchased together or in specific seasons, allowing them to better stock their inventory.
• Pricing Strategy:...

The Global Retail Sales Data provided here is a self-generated synthetic dataset created using Random Sampling techniques provided by the Numpy Package. The dataset emulates information regarding merchandise sales through a retail website set up by a popular fictional influencer based in the US between the '23-'24 period. The influencer would sell clothing, ornaments and other products at variable rates through the retail website to all of their followers across the world. Imagine that the influencer executes high levels of promotions for the materials they sell, prompting more ratings and reviews from their followers, pushing more user engagement.

This dataset is placed to help with practicing Sentiment Analysis or/and Time Series Analysis of sales, etc. as they are very important topics for Data Analyst prospects. The column description is given as follows:

Order ID: Serves as an identifier for each order made.

Order Date: The date when the order was made.

Product ID: Serves as an identifier for the product that was ordered.

Product Category: Category of Product sold(Clothing, Ornaments, Other).

Buyer Gender: Genders of people that have ordered from the website (Male, Female).

Buyer Age: Ages of the buyers.

Order Location: The city where the order was made from.

International Shipping: Whether the product was shipped internationally or not. (Yes/No)

Sales Price: Price tag for the product.

Shipping Charges: Extra charges for international shipments.

Sales per Unit: Sales cost while including international shipping charges.

Quantity: Quantity of the product bought.

Total Sales: Total sales made through the purchase.

Rating: User rating given for the order.

Review: User review given for the order.

Demographical Shopping Purchases Data

Analyzing customer purchasing patterns and preferences

By Joseph Nowicki [source]

About this dataset

This dataset contains demographic information about customers who have made purchases in a store, including their name, IP address, region, age, items purchased, and total amount spent. Furthermore, this data can provide insights into customer shopping behaviour for the store in question - from their geographical information to the types of products they purchase. With detailed demographic data like this at hand it is possible to make strategic decisions regarding target customers as well as developing specific marketing campaigns or promotions tailored to meet their needs and interests. By gaining deeper understanding of customer habits through this dataset we unlock more possibilities for businesses seeking higher engagement levels with shoppers

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How to use the dataset

This dataset includes information such as customer's names, IP address, age, items purchased and amount spent. This data can be used to uncover patterns in spending behavior of shoppers from different areas or regions across demographics like age group or gender.

Research Ideas

• Analyze customer shopping trends based on age and region to maximize targetted advertising.
• Analyze the correlation between customer spending habits based on store versus online behavior.
• Use IP addresses to track geographical trends in items purchased from a particular online store to identify new markets for targeted expansion

Acknowledgements

If you use this dataset in your research, please credit the original authors. Data Source

License

See the dataset description for more information.

Columns

File: Demographic_Data_Orig.csv | Column name | Description | |:---------------|:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | full.name | The full name of the customer. (String) | | ip.address | The IP address of the customer. (String) | | region | The region of residence of the customer. (String) | | in.store | A boolean value indicating whether the customer made the purchase in-store or online. (Boolean) | | age | The age of the customer. (Integer) | | items | The number of items purchased by the customer. (Integer) | | amount | The total amount spent by the customer. (Float) |

Acknowledgements

If you use this dataset in your research, please credit the original authors. If you use this dataset in your research, please credit Joseph Nowicki.

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In 2024, the in-store or brick-and-mortar retail channel was forecast to account for **** percent of total retail sales in the United States. By 2028, e-commerce is expected to make up ** percent of all retail sales.

United States Retail Sales: Shoe Stores data was reported at 3.072 USD bn in May 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 2.829 USD bn for Apr 2018. United States Retail Sales: Shoe Stores data is updated monthly, averaging 2.053 USD bn from Jan 1992 (Median) to May 2018, with 317 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 4.268 USD bn in Dec 2016 and a record low of 1.161 USD bn in Feb 1993. United States Retail Sales: Shoe Stores data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by US Census Bureau. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.H001: Retail Sales: By NAIC System.

In 2020, global retail sales fell by 2.9 percent as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, bouncing back in 2021 with a growth of 9.7 percent Global retail sales were projected to amount to around 27.3 trillion U.S. dollars by 2022, up from approximately 23.7 trillion U.S. dollars in 2020.

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