NRSInsights’ October 2026 Retail Same-Store Sales Report
NRSInsights, the data arm of IDT subsidiary National Retail Solutions, reported October same-store sales up 1.9% year-over-year, a rebound from +0.1% in September and -1.1% in August. Units sold rose 0.7% after three months of declines, but sales still grew more slowly than the network's 2.2% top-500-item inflation measure, implying slightly negative real growth.
Key figures
- Baskets yoy
- -0.9%
- Oct sss yoy
- 1.9%
- Sep sss yoy
- 0.1%
- Oct pos sales
- $2.3 billion
- Network stores
- ~34,000
- Units sold yoy
- 0.7%
- Oct transactions
- 153000000
- Three month sss yoy
- 0.1%
- Avg price top500 yoy
- 2.2%
- Same store oct sample
- ~249 million transactions across ~26,600 stores
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