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- In 2020, with the onset of the pandemic, retail sales were impacted, as consumers changed their shopping habits and retailers altered their business practices. Retail customers spent $669.6 billion at Canadian store and non-store retailers in 2020, leading to a slight decline of 0.1% in operating revenue compared with the previous year.
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Feb 19, 2021 · Canadian retailers finished 2020 with $606 billion in sales, down 1.4% from 2019. This was the largest annual decline since the 2009 recession, as the onset of COVID -1 9 in the first quarter of 2020 and related health measures led to the temporary closure of many non-essential brick-and-mortar retailers across the country.
Jun 14, 2020 · TORONTO -- The Canadian retail sector was already in trouble before COVID-19, but the pandemic has left it on even shakier ground. The combination of forced closures, decreased consumer...
- Food & Drug
- Store Merchandise
- Automotive & Related
- By The Numbers
- Canadian E-Commerce Sales
Retail sales at Food & Drug stores were up a record-breaking 11.5% year-over-year in Q4 2020. The 3 month sales growth trend (orange line in the chart) is hovering at historically high levels, and the underlying 12 month trend (green line) has taken off like a rocket. This is seldom seen in the Food & Drug sector where trends tend to be relatively ...
Store Merchandise went for a roller coaster ride in 2020. Retail sales were down 12.4% year-over-year in Q2, but that has since recovered to a gain of 7.6% in Q4. The sector ended 2020 with a modest 1.0% gain for the year overall. Both the 3 month retail sales trend and the underlying 12 month trend improved significantly in the second half of 2020...
The Automotive & Related sector’s retail sales were devastated in Q2 2020 but have since backed away from the brink. Nevertheless, conditions remain grim. Retail sales declined 1.4% year-over-year in Q4 and sector sales were down 11.3% for 2020 overall. Automobile dealers did manage a 2.7% increase in Q4 2020, but were still down 11.0% for the year...
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.
Canadian e-commerce retail sales doubled year-over-year in Q2 2020 with the onset of the COVID pandemic. That has now settled down somewhat to a slightly less spectacular 72.0% year-over-year increase in Q4 2020. Overall, e-commerce represented about 5.9% of Canadian retail sales in 2020, including both pure play as well as bricks & clicks stores. ...
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Aug 21, 2020 · Canadian retailers racked up $53 billion in sales in June, a 23 per cent rise from May and enough to put the figure above where it was in February before COVID-19 walloped Canada's economy.
While overall retail vacancy has continued to trend downwards since its most recent peak of 2.6% in Q3 2020, the four-quarter rolling average of net absorption as of mid-2024 remained below the four-year pre-pandemic average.
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Feb 21, 2023 · After peaking in the third quarter of 2020, retail e-commerce sales began to decline as in-store sales approached pre-pandemic levels. Many products sold in this subsector were deemed essential allowing consumers to continue making purchases in stores rather than online.
