Redbook Chain Store Sales (week ended 4/3/2021)

- Chain Store Sales year/year 10.6%. Previous was 9.3%

- Chain Store Sales month/month -17.2%. Previous was -17.4%.

Both the year/year and month/month data are clouded by the effects of the pandemic.

Source: Redbook Research Inc.

 

JOLTS  (February 2021)

- Job Openings 7,367,000.   Previous was 7,099,000

Graph of recent history: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/JTSJOL

Source:  BLS  Details: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/jolts.pdf