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What will the total retail sales including food services be for August 2021?

Resolved:618.676

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	<400	lower 25%	median	upper 75%	>800
community	0.3%	603.7	614.5	625.2	0.3%
My Prediction	—	—	—	—	—

Lower bound	community	My Prediction
<400	0.3%	—
Quartiles
lower 25%	603.7	—
median	614.5	—
upper 75%	625.2	—
Upper bound
>800	0.3%	—

What was the final result?618.676

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Jun 15, 2021

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