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The January 2013 Advance Monthly Sales for Retail Trade and Food Services report was released on February 13, 2013 at 8:30 a.m., and available as:

Time Series/Trend Charts: Create your own customizable time series.

The December 2012 Monthly Retail Trade and Food Services report was released on February 13, 2013 for sales and inventories, and available as:

Retail and Food Services Sales: Excel (1992-present) [534KB]
Retail Inventories and Inventories/Sales Ratios: Excel (1992-present) [326KB]
Adjustment Factors for Seasonal and Other Variations of Monthly Estimates: Sales | Inventories
Reliability of Monthly Estimates: Sales | Inventories
Annual Revision of Monthly Retail and Food Services: Sales and Inventories--January 1992 through March 2012

Time Series/Trend Charts: Create your own customizable time series.

The 2010 Annual Retail Trade Report was released on March 30, 2012. A Summary of Changes provides comparability with previous surveys.

Annual Retail Trade Survey—2010:
Sales (1992-2010): Excel [56KB]
Inventories (1992-2010): Excel [37KB]
Purchases (1992-2010): Excel [39KB]
Total Operating Expenses (2006-2010): Excel [39KB]
2007 Detailed Operating Expenses, including Accommodation and Food Services (last revised on 3/31/2011): Visit Historical Releases
Gross Margin (1993-2010): Excel [39KB]
Gross Margin as a Percentage of Sales (1993-2010): Excel [40KB]
Accounts Receivable (2004-2010): Excel [34KB]
Per Capita Sales (2000-2010): Excel [32KB]
Inventories Held Inside and Outside the U.S. (2004-2010): Excel [33KB]
For estimates of E-commerce sales, please see our most recent E-Stats report
Annual Accommodation and Food Services—2010:
Sales (1992-2010): Excel [30KB]
Measures of Sampling Variability—2010:
Annual Sales, End-of-Year Inventories by Location Held, Accounts Receivable by Type of Account, Operating Expenses, Purchases, and Gross Margin: Excel [128KB]

The 4th Quarter 2012 Retail E-Commerce Sales Report was released on February 15, 2013 and available as:

Full 4Q 2012 Publication in PDF [64KB]
Individual 4Q 2012 Tables available in Excel Format: Table 1 [24KB] | Table 2 [20KB]
Individual 4Q 2012 Tables available as delimited text: Table 1 | Table 2

Time Series available in Excel Format: Adjusted Sales [28KB] | Not Adjusted Sales [28KB]
Time Series available as delimited text: Adjusted Sales | Not Adjusted Sales