Total inventories of merchant wholesalers, except manufacturers' sales branches and offices, after adjustment for seasonal variations but not for price changes, were $609.5 billion at the end of September, up 0.3 percent from the revised August level. Total inventories were up 4.6 percent (±0.7 percent) from the revised September 2016 level. The August 2017 to September 2017 percent change was unrevised from the advance estimate of up 0.3 percent.