WASHINGTON — U.S. furniture and home furnishings sales in August were up 3.8% from the same month last year and up 2.1% from July as the home furnishings industry continued its sharp rebound from pandemic lows.
Sales for the sector reached an estimated $10.23 billion, up from $9.86 billion in August 2019, the U.S. Department of Commerce reported this week. August 2020 sales also topped the preliminary estimate of $10.02 billion in July, the latter figure revised up from the previous estimate of $9.82 billion.
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For the three months from June through August — all post lockdown months— sales were up 1.8% from the same three months a year ago and were up a whopping 58.3% from the March through May period, which includes six weeks or so of widespread store closings.
Combined retail and food services sales increased 2.6% from August 2019 and were up 0.6% from the previous month to an estimated $537.5 billion. Retail trade sales were up 5.1% from August a year ago and 0.1% from July.
Non-stores retailers, which included e-commerce companies, saw the greatest year-over-year gains, up 22.4%, while clothing and clothing accessories stores and department stores (a subset of general merchandise stores) to the biggest hits, down 20.4% and 16.9%, respectively. Compared to July, however, non-store retailers were one of the weaker performers with flat sales.
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