Total retail sales (seasonally adjusted)
RecordSTO-BT8VHH1ZX2-EFF64F1HAE-ACCT1T
United States · Q2 2026
Total retail sales in the United States (seasonally adjusted) were 1,986.5 billion USD in Q2 2026 (Census Bureau).
- Publisher
- Census Bureau
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- Quarterly Retail E-Commerce Sales Report
- Retrieved
- 23 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
Total retail sales for the second quarter of 2026 were estimated at $1,986.5 billion, an increase of 2.9 percent (±0.2 percent) from the first quarter of 2026.
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APA
U.S. Census Bureau. (2026). Monthly Retail Trade - Quarterly Retail E-Commerce Sales Report. Retrieved September 23, 2026, from https://www.census.gov/retail/ecommerce.html. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_BT8VHH1ZX2EFF64F1HAEACCT1T
Other formats: MLA, Chicago, BibTeX
- MLA
- U.S. Census Bureau. "Monthly Retail Trade - Quarterly Retail E-Commerce Sales Report." 2026, https://www.census.gov/retail/ecommerce.html. Accessed 23 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_BT8VHH1ZX2EFF64F1HAEACCT1T.
- Chicago
- U.S. Census Bureau. "Monthly Retail Trade - Quarterly Retail E-Commerce Sales Report." 2026. https://www.census.gov/retail/ecommerce.html. Accessed September 23, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_BT8VHH1ZX2EFF64F1HAEACCT1T.
- BibTeX
- @misc{censusbureau2026retailacct1t, author = {{U.S. Census Bureau}}, title = {Monthly Retail Trade - Quarterly Retail E-Commerce Sales Report}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_BT8VHH1ZX2EFF64F1HAEACCT1T}, note = {Original source: https://www.census.gov/retail/ecommerce.html. Accessed September 23, 2026.} }
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Primary source
- Publisher
- U.S. Census Bureau · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Monthly Retail Trade - Quarterly Retail E-Commerce Sales Report
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- —
- Locator
- Quarterly Retail E-Commerce Sales Report
- Retrieved
- 23 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- pipeline:quote-verified-v2
- Checked on
- 27 September 2026
- Last revision
- 27 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_BT8VHH1ZX2EFF64F1HAEACCT1T