Retail Creates Jobs Main

Tens of millions of U.S. workers’ jobs depend on the retail industry. Anybody whose job results in a consumer product – from those who supply the raw materials to factory workers to the truck drivers who deliver it to the store – counts on retail as the crucial point where goods reach paying customers. With 3.6 million stores drawing on a vast array of suppliers, retail directly and indirectly accounts for 42 million jobs and $2.5 trillion of annual GDP. With stores in every community, merchants connect daily with consumers and are a key barometer for the economy.

NRF has represented retailers for more than a century, and continues to be known as the "Voice of Retail in the Nation’s Capital."