US retail sales excluding autos rose 1.4% month-over-month in August 2026, following a revised 0.2% decline in July and surpassing market expectations of a 0.5% growth. Retail Sales Ex Autos in the United States averaged 0.40 percent from 1992 until 2026, reaching an all time high of 13.30 percent in May of 2020 and a record low of -14.50 percent in April of 2020. source: U.S. Census Bureau
Retail Sales Ex Autos in the United States is expected to be -0.10 percent by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the United States Retail Sales Ex Autos MoM is projected to trend around 0.60 percent in 2027 and 0.40 percent in 2028, according to our econometric models.