Full text of H.8a Weekly Department Store Sales : July 27, 1961

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H.8a

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 27, 1961,
WEEKLY DEPARTMENT STORE SALES
Percentage change from corresponding period a year ago

Federal Reserve
District

One week ending
July 221 July 151 July 8(July 1
+5
+ 2
0
+ 1

Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland

+10
+5
+3
r- 2

+8
+4
+1
+5

+4
0
0
- 2

+
+
+
+

7
2
1
1

+
+
-

+8
+4
+4
+2

-3
- 9
0
- 8

+
+
-

2
1
1
2

+ 1
0
- 1
- 1

Richmond
•Atlanta
Chicago
St. Louis

+
+
-

2
2
1
2

+2
+1
+2
0

Minneapolis
Kansas City
Dallas
San Francisco

0
-1
- 2
+ 8

0
r+1
+1
r+9

+ 2

+3

U. S, Total

Jan. 1
to
July 22

Four weeks
ending
July 22

5
2
1
2

+ 5 + 4
+9
+ 2
+2
- 7
+ 5
+1

+ 2
+ 3
-2
+ 6

+
+
+

+ 6

+ 2

+ 1

-1

1
4
1
1

U. S. weekly index, without seasonal adjustment. 1947-49=100 if
1961
June
July
July
July
July

24
1
8
15
22

127
125
114
123
122

I960
- June
July
July
July
July

25
2
9
16
23

124
126
108
119
120

1959
June
July
July
July
July

27
4
11
18
25

118
109
126
118
117

r—Revised,
if For description and weekly indexes for the period January 1937 to March 1958
see Federal Reserve Bulletin for April 1958* pp. 412-421.
Weekly indexes at the district and city levels are published by several of
the Federal Reserve Banks.