Retailgeek

Two of my favorite things are commerce and data, so I'm excited to share a personal project I've been building this summer: two free trackers on retailgeek.com.

https://retailgeek.com/comps is a comp sales tracker for 52 public U.S. retailers. Every number comes straight from the company's own press release, 10-Q or 10-K, quarter by quarter since 2019. Store comps and digital growth side by side, nothing modeled, nothing normalized.

https://retailgeek.com/retail is U.S. retail sales by category from Census Bureau data, monthly and quarterly. The part I'm most proud of is the real vs nominal view: it shows how much of each category's growth was actually inflation. Spoiler for August: most of it.

Both update as soon as new data lands. Let me know what would make them more useful, and what you'd want tracked next.

US Retail Sales Data U.S. retail sales by category from Census Bureau data, monthly and quarterly. Including real vs nominal view that shows how much of each category's growth was actually inflation

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