Retail Sales for the past few year (ex Auto)

RETAIL SALES ex Auto We are way down since this depression started. Way Down.
JUL 2010 + 0.2%
JUN 2010 – 0.1%
MAY 2010 – 1.2%
APR 2010 + 0.6%
MAR 2010 + 1.2%
FEB 2010 + 0.8%
JAN 2010 + 0.5%
DEC 2009 – 0.2%
NOV 2009 + 1.2%
OCT 2009 + 0.0%
SEP 2009 + 0.4%
AUG 2009 + 1.0%
JUL 2009 – 0.5%
JUN 2009 + 0.5%
MAY 2009 + 0.4%
APR 2009 – 0.2%
MAR 2009 – 1.2%
FEB 2009 + 1.0%
JAN 2009 – 1.6%
DEC 2008 – 3.2%
NOV 2008 – 2.5%
OCT 2008 – 2.4%
SEP 2008 – 0.6%
AUG 2008 – 0.9%


Remember the percentage down does not equal the percentage up.

If stocks go DOWN fifty percent, they have to go UP 100 percent to reach their former value

My business (auto insurance) started really sucking about the middle of 2009 and continues to suck. people are just broke.

RETAIL SALES ex Auto

Since August of 2008 we have seen sales fall 14.6%. We have seen sales rise 7.8%. so sales are still down over ten percent in the past two years. That is not good.

I just added up the numbers in my noggen, so it might be off a tenth of a percent, but the round numbers should be correct. For Retail Sales to be down ten percent over the last two years means that a lot of stores are struggling to bet by. That ten percent for a lot of them is their margin of profit. We could see a lot more retail businesses collapse in the coming months.
JUL 2010 + 0.2%
JUN 2010 – 0.1%
MAY 2010 – 1.2%
APR 2010 + 0.6%
MAR 2010 + 1.2%
FEB 2010 + 0.8%
JAN 2010 + 0.5%
DEC 2009 – 0.2%
NOV 2009 + 1.2%
OCT 2009 + 0.0%
SEP 2009 + 0.4%
AUG 2009 + 1.0%
JUL 2009 – 0.5%
JUN 2009 + 0.5%
MAY 2009 + 0.4%
APR 2009 – 0.2%
MAR 2009 – 1.2%
FEB 2009 + 1.0%
JAN 2009 – 1.6%
DEC 2008 – 3.2%
NOV 2008 – 2.5%
OCT 2008 – 2.4%
SEP 2008 – 0.6%
AUG 2008 – 0.9%