Retail Inventories +0.8% in August, Wholesale up 0.5 percent

Advance Wholesale Inventories 
Wholesale inventories for August, adjusted for seasonal variations but not for price changes, were estimated at an end-of -month level of $637.0 billion, up 0.5 percent (±0.2 percent) from July 2020, and were down 5.0 percent (±0.7 percent) from August 2019. The June 2020 to July 2020 percentage change was revised from down 0.3 percent (±0.2 percent) to down 0.1 percent (±0.2 percent).

Advance Retail Inventories 
Retail inventories for August, adjusted for seasonal variations but not for price changes, were estimated at an end-of -month level of $599.7 billion, up 0.8 percent (±0.2 percent) from July 2020, and were down 10.1 percent (±0.5 percent) from August 2019. The June 2020 to July 2020 percentage change was unrevised from the preliminary estimate of up 1.2 percent (±0.2 percent).