Retail employment
STO-REC-STAT01M2KJT2 National
55 million
United States · as of 8 Sep 2026
Retail employment in United States stood at 55 million as of 8 September 2026 (NRF).
- Publisher
- NRF
- Authority tier
- T2 National
- Locator
- About NRF
- Retrieved
- 15 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
Retail is the nation’s largest private-sector employer, contributing $5.3 trillion to annual GDP and supporting more than one in four U.S. jobs — 55 million working Americans.
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- APA
- National Retail Federation. (2026). NRF Names Former Federal Prosecutor as SVP and General Counsel. Retrieved September 15, 2026, from https://nrf.com/media-center/press-releases/nrf-names-former-federal-prosecutor-as-svp-and-general-counsel. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC54ZQ6X7RPPHCS3BPS
- MLA
- National Retail Federation. "NRF Names Former Federal Prosecutor as SVP and General Counsel." 2026, https://nrf.com/media-center/press-releases/nrf-names-former-federal-prosecutor-as-svp-and-general-counsel. Accessed 15 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC54ZQ6X7RPPHCS3BPS.
- Chicago
- National Retail Federation. "NRF Names Former Federal Prosecutor as SVP and General Counsel." 2026. https://nrf.com/media-center/press-releases/nrf-names-former-federal-prosecutor-as-svp-and-general-counsel. Accessed September 15, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC54ZQ6X7RPPHCS3BPS.
- BibTeX
- @misc{nrf2026retailcs3bps, author = {{National Retail Federation}}, title = {NRF Names Former Federal Prosecutor as SVP and General Counsel}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC54ZQ6X7RPPHCS3BPS}, note = {Original source: https://nrf.com/media-center/press-releases/nrf-names-former-federal-prosecutor-as-svp-and-general-counsel. Accessed September 15, 2026.} }
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Primary Source
- Publisher
- National Retail Federation · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 2 · National Official
- Report
- NRF Names Former Federal Prosecutor as SVP and General Counsel
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- —
- Locator
- About NRF
- Retrieved
- 15 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification & Integrity
- Audit status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 15 September 2026
- Last revision
- 15 September 2026
- Archival URI
- /stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC54ZQ6X7RPPHCS3BPS