Tracker
Retail Sales
What Americans spent at stores and restaurants each month.
$757B
Millions of dollars · latest, Apr 2026
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.