Retail industry GDP contribution (snapshot)

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). Retailers See Fraud Schemes Evolve as Shoplifting Declines, NRF Study Finds. Retrieved September 15, 2026, from https://nrf.com/media-center/press-releases/retailers-see-fraud-schemes-evolve-as-shoplifting-declines-nrf-study-finds. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC54ZQ6X7RPPHCS3BPT

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MLA

National Retail Federation. "Retailers See Fraud Schemes Evolve as Shoplifting Declines, NRF Study Finds." 2026, https://nrf.com/media-center/press-releases/retailers-see-fraud-schemes-evolve-as-shoplifting-declines-nrf-study-finds. Accessed 15 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC54ZQ6X7RPPHCS3BPT.

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Chicago

National Retail Federation. "Retailers See Fraud Schemes Evolve as Shoplifting Declines, NRF Study Finds." 2026. https://nrf.com/media-center/press-releases/retailers-see-fraud-schemes-evolve-as-shoplifting-declines-nrf-study-finds. Accessed September 15, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC54ZQ6X7RPPHCS3BPT.

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BibTeX

@misc{nrf2026retailcs3bpt, author = {{National Retail Federation}}, title = {Retailers See Fraud Schemes Evolve as Shoplifting Declines, NRF Study Finds}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC54ZQ6X7RPPHCS3BPT}, note = {Original source: https://nrf.com/media-center/press-releases/retailers-see-fraud-schemes-evolve-as-shoplifting-declines-nrf-study-finds. Accessed September 15, 2026.} }

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