# Stratalize US Advance Retail Sales Benchmark

> Stratalize US Advance Retail Sales Benchmark is a paid API for AI agents from www.stratalize.com, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Returns US advance retail sales data from FRED in billions USD with month-over-month and year-over-year percent changes, cryptographically signed.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://www.stratalize.com/api/x402/retail-sales-benchmark
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/stratalize-us-advance-retail-sales-benchmark-55748ad5
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_aW_xeloH0b133BPS7c81L

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability stratalize-us-advance-retail-sales-benchmark-55748ad5
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest US advance retail sales benchmark so I can see the current level in billions and both the month-over-month and year-over-year changes for my consumer demand model.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when an agent needs a single, atomic, cryptographically verifiable snapshot of US advance retail sales with both MoM and YoY trend data sourced directly from FRED/US Census Bureau. Prefer this over manual FRED queries when auditability (ML-DSA-65 signature + receipt) is required, or when integrating into a macro agent pipeline that needs a standardized $0.02 per-call cost model.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not processed — x402 payment required before data is returned
- Stale data — FRED may not have released the latest advance retail sales report yet
- Network timeout — endpoint unreachable
- Invalid payment token — USDC payment rejected or underfunded

## How this service works

Stratalize — attested finance, legal, healthcare, and compliance intelligence. Signed, independently verifiable receipt on every call (trust.stratalize.com/verify). US advance retail sales from FRED in billions USD with month-over-month and year-over-year percent change. Use for consumer demand monitoring, recession signals, and revenue forecasting agents. Source: FRED / US Census Bureau. $0.02 atomic

## Output

Returns US advance retail sales figures in billions USD sourced from FRED/US Census Bureau, including month-over-month and year-over-year percent changes, a freshness timestamp, data source attribution, a cryptographic receipt ID, and a verification URL at trust.stratalize.com/verify. Every response is ML-DSA-65 signed.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "category": {
   "enum": [
    "total",
    "ex_auto",
    "food",
    "online",
    "gasoline"
   ],
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Retail sales category for benchmark comparison"
  }
 }
}
```

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