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).

Original source
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
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Verification & Integrity

Audit status
Verified
Review protocol
Editorial review
Checked on
15 September 2026
Last revision
15 September 2026
Archival URI
/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC54ZQ6X7RPPHCS3BPS