Executive Summary

Coresight Research’s monthly reports keep you up to date on US and UK retail sales, US retail traffic and in-store metrics, selected US retailers’ same-store sales and key global consumer indicators. Click here to view our full collection of Monthly Reports.

Each month, we round up key metrics that reflect consumer demand in the US, the UK and China. In these updates, we focus on direct, leading indicators of the health of the consumer economy — namely, wage growth, price changes and retail sales growth.

In May:

• US wage growth softened a little, as did inflation.
• UK retail sales were weak, with a slowdown across several major sectors.
• China retail sales growth picked up to 8.6%, but inflation was high in food.