Approximately many retail locations are there in the US and how would
those locations be broken out by general type of industry?  In other
words, how many restaurants, convenience stores, clothing stores,
grocery stores, hardware stores, health clubs and other general
categories of retail locations exist?

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 14 May 2005 15:13 PDT

Uncle Sam doesn't define the retail industry quite the way you do.

According to the latest Census Bureau figures (for 2002), there were
713,986 retail establishments in the US.  You can see the breakout of
the main categories here (sorry for the ludicrously long URL):


http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/IBQTable?_bm=y&-ds_name=EC0244I1&-ib_type=NAICS2002&-NAICS2002=441|443|445|446|447|448|452&-geo_id=&-_industry=441&-_industry=443&-_industry=445&-_industry=446&-_industry=447&-_industry=448&-_industry=452&-NAICS2002sector=*3&-_lang=en&-fds_name=EC0200A1


However, these numbers don't include restaurants, which is a separate
NAICS code all together, and may not include other sectors that are of
interest to you.

Each of the categories at the above link can be broken out into
detailed subcategories.  For instance, the "Motor vehicle & parts
dealers" breaks out into:

Automobile dealers
--New car dealers
--Used car dealers

Other motor vehicle dealers
--Recreational vehicle dealers

Motorcycle, boat, & other motor vehicle dealers
--Motorcycle dealers
--Boat dealers
--All other motor vehicle dealers

Automotive parts, accessories, & tire stores
--Automotive parts & accessories stores
--Tire dealers



Take a look at the above link, and let me know what sort of additional
details you would need for a complete answer to your question.

Thanks,

pafalafa-ga

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 14 May 2005 15:14 PDT

P.S.  Since the link doesn't appear to be clickable, just copy and
paste it into your browser address bar to open the link.