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Quarterly dataset of the New Zealand Retail Sales YoY, including historical data, latest releases, and long-term trends from 2015-06-30 to 2025-06-30. Available for free download in CSV format.

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Online shopping trends

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Rise of the digital wallet

Supported by a high internet penetration rate, New Zealanders look set to rapidly increase their future e-commerce shopping volume. Online shopping accounted for *** percent of all retail spending as of 2019 and growth is expected to continue in this segment. The number of employees in the retail trade industry increased in 2018, though at a lower rate than in previous years. This indicates that traditional brick and mortar retail outlets may be starting to lose their dominance in the retail market, with increased competition from both local and global online stores.

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Fluctuating customer activity has caused the Clothing Retailing industry to lean more into expanding its omnichannel approaches. Many bricks-and-mortar stores are struggling against inexpensive online-only and overseas retailers. Major stores are strategically either developing their own platforms or partnering with other popular online clothing sales hubs to reach more people. Nonetheless, physical stores remain critical to customer experiences, with a large portion of customers still preferring to shop and try on clothes in person for known brands and products. Adopting multichannel strategies has allowed clothing retailers to tap into the online shopping market and expand their income streams. The online shopping boom benefited retailers overall, contributing to an annualised 0.3% rise in revenue through the end of 2025-26, to an estimated $3.7 billion. Revenge spending following the easing of pandemic restrictions contributed to this growth. However, heightened cost-of-living pressures have more recently swung the pendulum back the other way, stifling consumer spending in the current year. Revenue is expected to drift downwards by 0.6% this year as retailers fight to encourage a spending recovery. While clothing can be seen as a necessary good, many shoppers have historically purchased above the bare minimum in times of economic prosperity. Yet, with budgets being stretched in recent years, some clothing accessories and more expensive brands have struggled to sustain sales activity of late. Consumers are opting to save or allocate funds towards paying back mortgages and other loans. Low consumer sentiment has also fuelled bargain-hunting behaviour, along with a transition to online channels and thrift stores with ample deals and discounts. Department stores' size and buying power allow them to sell clothing at lower prices and capture demand from price-conscious consumers. These consumer demand drawbacks, coupled with tougher purchase order conditions, have caused profit margins to shrink from both ends to maintain sales volumes. Revenue is forecast to climb at an annualised rate of 1.7% through the end of 2030-31, to $4.0 billion. Improvements in consumer sentiment and real household disposable incomes will drive consumer expenditure on discretionary clothing items. Even so, discounting will return with a vengeance as supply chains recover, taking a toll on clothing retailers' profitability. Also, global fast fashion chains will continue entering the New Zealand market, syphoning demand and intensifying price-based competition.

Electronic Card Transactions from 2017-2020

Exploring Retail Spending Trends

By data.govt.nz [source]

About this dataset

This dataset contains valuable information about electronic card transactions from 2017-2020. The data is sourced from a trustable source and was last updated on 2020-08-10. It paints a comprehensive picture of electronic payments made during this period and includes important variables such as the series reference, period, data value, suppresed status, units magnitude, subject, group and five titles (series_title). This data is useful for exploring timely trends in electronic card spending activity over the 4 year period between 2017 to 2020 making it an invaluable asset for researchers looking to better understand purchasing habits in New Zealand. This dataset offers analysts unprecedented insight into consumer behavior allowing them to develop strategies aimed at increasing transaction volumes or customer loyalty initiatives

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• This dataset contains information about electronic card transactions from 2017-2020. It includes data on the series reference, period, data value, suppressed status, units of measurement, magnitude, subject and group. Using this dataset can provide you with insightful information that can help you improve your business operations and make better decisions.
• For example, you could use the data values to identify patterns and trends in sales over time. You could also use the period data to determine whether certain months have more sales than others. Finally, you could utilize the suppressed status to understand which transactions should or should not be included when making conclusions from your dataset.
• In order to use this dataset effectively it would be helpful for you to be familiar with database software such as Microsoft Access or SQLite database manager which is free and open source software for managing a variety of databases. Once familiar with database software of your choice it is important to understand how different fields interact together in order create meaningful results from queries such as finding out what kind of expenditure is done during different times of year or discovering what kind of products contribute most revenue during certain periods etc.. It is also sensible for one become knowledgeable in some basic coding languages like Python - that have modules designed specifically for statistical analysis - so they are well equipped when it comes down crunching these kinds complex datasets into tangible insights!

Research Ideas

• Visualizing changes in spending habits of consumers over time by analyzing the Data_value, UNITS and Magnitude columns.
• Analyzing the correlation between areas with higher spending volumes and socioeconomic factors such as income level or population density by leveraging Subject and Group details.
• Predicting future trends in electronic card transactions through machine learning algorithms that use historical data from the dataset to make predictions on changing patterns of consumer spending behaviors over time based on all columns in the dataset eg Series_title_1, STATUS etc.

Acknowledgements

If you use this dataset in your research, please credit the original authors. Data Source

License

License: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) - Public Domain Dedication No Copyright - You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. See Other Information.

Columns

File: electronic-card-transactions-feb-2018-csv-tables.csv | Column name | Description | |:---------------------|:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Series_reference | Unique identifier for each series. (String) | | Period | Date of the transaction. (Date) | | Data_value | Value of the transaction. (Integer) | | Suppressed | Boolean value indicating whether the data has been suppressed or not. (Boolean) | | STATUS | Status of the transaction. (String) | | UNITS | Units of the transaction. (String) | |...

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