The 2016 Holiday Season
This festive season, or simply the holidays, is a time for gathering and celebrating with family and friends, gift giving, reflection and thanks. To commemorate this time of year, the U.S. Census Bureau presents the following holiday-related facts and figures from its collection of statistics. Rush to the Stores $23.8 billion The estimated retail sales by the nation’s department stores (including leased departments) in December 2015. A decrease of $0.4 billion in retail sales from December of the previous year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Monthly Retail Trade Survey www. census .gov/econ/ currentdata/dbsearch?program= MRTS&startYear=2014&endYear= 2015&categories=4521I& dataType=SM&geoLevel=US& notAdjusted=1&submit=GET+DATA& releaseScheduleId Note: Leased departments are separately owned businesses operated as departments or concessions of other service establishments or of retail businesses, such as a separately ow
