U.S. Retail Sales Decline by Record Numbers Amid Coronavirus Closures

Retail sales in the U.S. drastically declined last month amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Sales dropped a hefty 8.7 percent in March, marking the sharpest decline ever since the government began tracking the data in 1992, as CNBC reports.It's a glaring difference from February, which saw sales decline by a much lower rate of 0.4 percent according to the Commerce Department. As much of the world has been shuttled indoors to stave off the coronavirus, shopping has inevitably fallen to the back burner f...