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Feb 20, 2023 · In total, retail customers spent $752.2 billion at Canadian store and non-store retailers in 2021, leading to a 12.3% increase in operating revenue compared with 2020. Many factors affected retail sales throughout the sector; extreme weather events, supply chain disruptions and labour shortages influenced prices, along with increased costs for energy, building and raw materials, transportation ...
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- Store Merchandise
- Automotive & Related
- By The Numbers
- Canadian E-Commerce Sales
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After setting records in 2020, the Food & Drug sector had very modest growth in 2021, with sales up just 1.9%. The trend lines declined over most of the year. In Q4, retail sales recorded a rare dip into negative territory, down 0.6% year-over-year. The underlying 12 month trend has also taken a nosedive, despite inflation and population growth. No...
Retail sales for the Store Merchandise sector were up 12.8% in 2021, a record high. But again, this was a rebound from slow sales from the year before due to COVID. Also, most of this sales increase happened in Q2 and things have slowed somewhat since. In Q4, year-over-year retail sales were up 8.1%, which is still a healthy increase, but just not ...
Retail sales in the Automotive & Related sector were up a whopping 19.5% in 2021. This was due to strong gains in vehicle sales earlier in the year combined with big gains in gasoline station sales throughout most of 2021. By Q4 however, sales gains at new car dealers slowed down to 3.4% year-over-year. This was more than offset by a nosebleed 34.8...
Note that the data and analysis in this report are always based on not seasonally adjusted (or unadjusted) retail sales statistics. For definitions of store types, see Statistics Canada NAICS.
Annual Canadian e-commerce retail sales increased by 74.2% in 2020 as COVID hit, and then by a further 14.2% in 2021. E-commerce is still growing, but not as fast as it used to. In Q4 2021, e-commerce sales actually declined by 4.2%, and growth may be flat going forward as COVID restrictions continue to be lifted. Overall, e-commerce represented ab...
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Feb 18, 2022 · Canadian retailers finished 2021 with $674 billion in sales, up 11.6% from 2020 with increases observed in all subsectors. This increase comes in the wake of a decline in 2020, when retail sales experienced its largest drop since the 2009 global financial crisis. In volume terms, retail sales increased 8.4% in 2021.
Feb 21, 2023 · During the height of the pandemic in 2020 and 2021, the shares of retail e-commerce sales were 6.6% and 6.9%, respectively. The retail e-commerce share of total retail sales peaked in 2021, as retailers were impacted by a second wave of store closures during the first half of that year. Data table for Chart 1
RCC has replaced the monthly Retail By The Numbers publication with the Retail Pulse Dashboard, a new interactive platform that delivers data on Canadian retail sales, retail job numbers, economic data, credit and debit card spending and consumer behaviour in one online tool on the Retail Council of Canada’s website. The Retail Pulse ...
Feb 25, 2021 · Total Canadian retail sales were up 5.7% year-over-year in Q4 2020. Due to the steep declines in Q2 however, the underlying 12 month trend (green line in the chart) is still in negative territory. It’s unlikely that this will improve much in the short term, due to renewed lockdowns and other anti-COVID measures put in place going into 2021.
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Feb 8, 2022 · Here are some 2021 Canadian retail industry statistics to consider going forward into 2022. E-commerce. Canadians are among the world’s most savvy internet users, so it’s no surprise that in 2021 over 70 per cent of Canadians were e-commerce users. In the first five months of 2021 alone, e-commerce sales reached over 15 billion USD.
