US Census Bureau — retail activity
US retail and food-services sales, category 44X72, Census Monthly Retail Trade Survey (MRTS). Monthly sales are seasonally adjusted millions of current US dollars, not inflation-adjusted volume. Monthly reference period start is not publication time. Estimates can be revised. A rolling six-month source query selects only the latest valid observation; no historical import. Private operator API key is never exposed in public JSON or source URLs. Checked once per 24 hours; stale after 120 days from reference-month start. Public dataset metadata lists CC0: https://api.census.gov/data/timeseries/eits/mrts.json . Terms: https://www.census.gov/data/developers/about/terms-of-service.html .
Attribution: U.S. Census Bureau, MRTS. This product uses the Census Bureau Data API but is not endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau.