Retail sales in the US increases

In a Bloomberg write up, it was stated that retail sales in the US increased as "consumers may be looking past the recent volatility in financial markets. Well, sales grew but only at a pace of 0.1% for core retail sales and 0.2% for retail sales. This is deterioration from the previous period`s growth of 0.6% and 0.7% respectively.

Zerohedge has a more critically written article on this.