Statistics for Managers: • U.S. Retail Sales

U.S. retail and food services sales for February, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, were $421.4 billion, an increase of 1.1 percent (±0.5%) from the previous month and 4.6 percent (±0.7%) above February 2012.

Total sales for the December 2012 through February 2013 period were up 4.5 percent (±0.5%) from the same period a year ago.