However, building materials and hardware stores remained flat. In total, retail contributed $5.28 trillion to the U.S economy in 2024, another record. Sales rose 3.6% year-over-year, leveling out ...

The value of total retail sales for December, provisionally estimated at $32.8 billion, was 9.7% less than in the same month ...

New research from Appriss Retail revealed that total merchandise returns for 2024 totaled $685 billion, which represents a whopping 13.2 percent of total retail sales - which is pegged to come in ...