Data downloads: out-of-stock rates at U.S. retailers
The tables behind every chart in The Retail Availability Gap, StoreLocators’ study of how often products go out of stock at U.S. retail stores, how long they stay out and whether a nearby store has them. Plain CSV, one file per chart, shares as fractions.
Read the study: How Often Products Go Out of Stock at U.S. Retailers
Files
Share reported unavailable 1, 7 and 30 days after an in-stock reading, by chain type and category.
columns: group, days, share, low, high, pair_days, brands
Share of out-of-stock product-store days with the product available at another store of the chain within 5, 10 and 25 miles.
columns: group, miles, share, low, high, pair_days, brands
- Concentration1 KB
Share of out-of-stock product-store days from the top 10% of products and stores.
columns: group, top10_products_share, top10_stores_share, combinations
- Recovery1 KB
Share of out-of-stock spells reported back within 1, 3, 7, 14 and 30 days.
columns: group, days, share, low, high, spells, brands
- By category6 KB
Findings 1, 2 and 4 by product category.
columns: category, brands, metric, horizon, share, low, high, n
Retailer pages
One file per retailer page, holding every figure that page shows and nothing more. Files are listed alphabetically; retailers are never ranked.
Licence and citation
Licensed CC BY 4.0. Use, share and adapt the tables freely, with attribution to StoreLocators and a link to the study. Every file is aggregate: no brand, product or store can be identified from it.
Releases
- 2026-09-22First release. (2026-09)
Current release 2026-09: data through September 18, 2026, window June 21 to September 18, 2026, published September 22, 2026.