Full text of H.8a Weekly Department Store Sales : May 10, 1956

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
FOR BMEDB.TE RELEASE
May 10, 1956

H.8a
Y;E£KL£ DEPARTMENT STORE SALES

Percentage change from corresponding p e r i o d a year ago
(Based on r e t a i l d o l l a r amounts) ±j
Jan. 1
Four weeks
One week ending
to
ending
May
5
May 5
Apr. 2b 1 Apr. 21 | Apr. 1U
May 5*
1
+ 1
+ 1
- 1
+14
+ 5
-12
.+ 1
+20
+ k
r+ 2
7
- 5 '
+
6
+
3
+2U
0
+ 5
r- 3
+ 3
+ili
- 1
- 6
- 6
- 2

Federal Reserve
District

Boston
'
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland
j!
j
j
j

Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
St'. Louis

-U
- 6
- 9
- 5

- 2

h
6
1
- 9

+11
0
+ 5
+ 9
+14
+ 3
+ 4
+ 7
+11

-

-

+ 2
+ 5
r- 6

Minneapolis
Kansas City
Dallas
San F r a n c i s c o

-11
-11
- 7
- 9

r+ 1

2
1
3
+ 6

U. So T o t a l

- 7

r- 1

1

+

|
|i

- 1
- h
- 2
- l

+
+
+
+

1
3
2
3

+
+

l
h
h
1

+ 1
- 1
f 1
0

0

+ 2

1
U. S. weekly index, without s e a s o n a l a d j u s t m e n t , 1947-49=100 2 /
1956
Apr. 7
Apr. 1U
- Apr. 21 Apr, 28
Mcy
5

1955
10U
11U
113
rll?
125

Apr. 9
Apr. 16
Apr. 23
Apr. 30
May
7

195U
122
103
112
120
134

Apr. 10
Apr. 17
Apr. 24
May
1
May
8

113
110
101
112
.123

r—iLevxsea.
1 / During A p r i l changes frcin a year ago r e f l e c t i n p a r t t h e f a c t t h a t l a s t year
E a s t e r was on A p r i l 10 while t h i s year i t was on A p r i l 1 . For t h i s reason i t i s
e s t i m a t e d t h a t i n comparison with l a s t year an allowance should be made f o r a
decrease i n s a l e s of about h per cent f o r t h e month of A p r i l as a whole. This
allowance a p p l i e s t o the f i g u r e s f o r t h e United S t a t e s .
2/ For d e s c r i p t i o n and weekly indexes f o r the p e r i o d January 1937 t o March 1952 see
F e d e r a l Reserve B u l l e t i n f o r A p r i l 1952, pp. 359-362. Indexes f o r t h e p e r i o d A p r i l
1952 t o date may be obtained upon r e q u e s t from the D i v i s i o n of Research and
Statistics.
*—Comparisons are a f f e c t e d by the f a c t t h a t M o t h e r ' s Day i s one week l a t e r t h i s
year than l a s t .
Weekly indexes a t t h e d i s t r i c t and c i t y l e v e l s a r e p u b l i s h e d by s e v e r a l of the
F e d e r a l Reserve Banks.