Source: eMarketer, August 2022
Note: includes point-of-sale (POS) transactions made in-store and over the internet; includes food services and drinking places sales; includes sales taxes; excludes travel and event tickets, payments (such as bill pay or money transfers), mail orders, gambling, and other vice goods sales
Additional Note: eMarketer benchmarks its retail sales figures against US Department of Commerce data, for which the last full year measured was 2020.
Methodology: Estimates are based on the analysis of data from the US Department of Commerce and the Federal Reserve, estimates from other research firms, reported company revenues, historical trends, consumer buying trends, and macro-level economic conditions.