Advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for October 2017, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, were $486.6 billion, an increase of 0.2 percent from the previous month, and 4.6 percent above October 2016. Total sales for the August 2017 through October 2017 period were up 4.3 percent from the same period a year ago. The August 2017 to September 2017 percent change was revised from up 1.6 percent to up 1.9 percent (±0.2 percent).