Retail Trade - UA Center for Business and Economic Research Retail Trade CBER processes monthly retail sales records from the Alabama Department of Revenue to compute taxable retail sales for Alabama, its counties, and MSAs. Total sales and ten component categories are reported monthly.
Annual summaries are prepared at year-end.
Current retail trade data are published periodically in Alabama Business , the Center's free quarterly newsletter. Detailed tables , no longer published in the newsletter, with monthly retail sales for Alabama counties and MSAs, as well as state sales by category, are available on this site under Alabama Business within the E-Data section. Annual summaries of CBER retail trade data for the state, counties, and MSAs, and data from the Census of Retail Trade, conducted every five years by the Census Bureau, are available under Access Retail Trade Data below.