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Total retail and food services sales came in at $763.6 billion, down from $768.1 billion in June but up 5% from a year earlier
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Total retail and food services sales came in at $763.6 billion, down from $768.1 billion in June but up 5% from a year earlier
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The moves come after the latest retail sales figures missed expectations and the U.S. said its naval blockade of Iranian ports could continue "indefinitely."
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AIPROPX has consolidated 2 reports from 2 outlets into a single canonical entry on “US retail sales unexpectedly drop in July.” The covered outlets are based across 2 regions — Other and US.
The earliest report in this entry came from CNBC (Aug 14, 2026, 12:47 UTC); the most recent came from Quartz (Aug 14, 2026, 12:50 UTC).
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