Warmer weather and the end of school helped push more shoppers into stores in June, according to Betty Chen, an analyst at Wedbush Securities in San Francisco. Retailers typically discount merchandise in June to clear inventory and make room for fall merchandise. Those clearance sales also helped drive sales in the month, said Howard Tubin, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets in New York.

“Customers will not likely begin shopping in earnest for new fall fashions until August and September,” Tubin said in a research note. “We don’t have high hopes for business in July but would expect a pickup thereafter.”