Retail Sales in Canada decreased 0 percent in October of 2025 over the previous month. This dataset provides - Canada Retail Sales MoM - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

In 2023, retail trade sales in Canada amounted to approximately *** billion Canadian dollars, up from ***** billion recorded a year earlier. Retail in Canada The Canadian retail trade industry constantly grew between 2012 and 2019. In that year retail trade sales increased by *** percent from 2018. In 2020, however, sales decreased by nearly *** percent amidst the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Motor vehicle and parts dealers retail sales declined nearly **** percent in 2020, while new car dealers, which accounted for about ** percent of total retail sales, declined nearly ** percent. In contrast, retail sales in other sectors such as supermarkets, and building material and garden equipment suppliers were impacted positively in 2020. Sales at supermarkets and other grocery stores increased nearly ** percent as they were essential at the start of the pandemic. On the other hand, with consumers spending more time at home, sales at building material and garden equipment suppliers grew significantly. The year-over-year change was around ** percent in 2020, but the month-over-month change increased by nearly ** percent in December 2020 against December 2019.

Retail trade, sales, Canada, provinces, territories and specific Census Metropolitan Areas based on the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), monthly.

In December of 2024, retail sales amounted to an estimated ** billion Canadian dollars. In April 2020, retail sales plummeted in Canada as the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic caused most businesses to close temporarily.

Retail Sales in Canada increased 3.40 percent in September of 2025 over the same month in the previous year. This dataset provides - Canada Retail Sales YoY - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Retail trade sales, price, and volume, for Canada, includes all members under North American Industry Classification System. Data is seasonally adjusted, available on a monthly basis in dollars x 1,000,000.

Forecasts suggest, that in 2023, online retail sales in Canada amounted to nearly *** billion Canadian dollars. Furthermore, by 2027, e-commerce retail sales in the North American country would be more than *** billion Canadian dollars. Canada’s online shopper specs In 2021, Canada was home to over*** million digital buyers, and the figure is expected to surpass ** million by mid-decade. Among Canadians who shop online, the majority tend to make their online purchases on desktops rather than mobile devices, with desktop e-shopping generating an estimated ** billion U.S. dollars in 2021. Additionally, chain retail generates a significant portion of Canada’s total e-commerce sales, making up a forecasted total of ** billion U.S. dollars by the end of 2022. Even though most of these sales are first-party, third-party sellers are set to double sales in the next 5 years. Amazon in Canada With its massive global success, Amazon is unsurprisingly one of Canada’s biggest e-commerce players and is responsible for a significant portion of third-party e-commerce sales. On Amazon’s Canadian site, amazon.ca, the company is expected to complete 2022 with a sales value of almost ** billion U.S. dollars, roughly one-tenth of the country’s forecasted retail e-commerce sales for the same year. Amazon also ranked as Canada’s leading e-commerce grocery site in 2021. The platform offered approximately ****** different packaged food products, boasting a much larger inventory than other Canadian-native grocery e-retailers.

Retail trade, sales, Canada, provinces, territories and specific Census Metropolitan Areas based on the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), monthly.

Graph and download economic data for Sales: Retail Trade: Total Retail Trade: Volume for Canada (CANSLRTTO01GPSAM) from Feb 1991 to Aug 2025 about Canada, trade, retail trade, sales, and retail.

Total retail sales in Canada represents the aggregate value of goods sold through retail channels, measured in billions of Canadian dollars. This includes sales across all retail subsectors such as food and beverage stores, motor vehicle and parts dealers, clothing and accessories, furniture and home furnishings, electronics, building materials, gasoline stations, health and personal care, and general merchandise stores. Data encompasses both brick-and-mortar and e-commerce transactions. Data is sourced from Statistics Canada's Monthly Retail Trade Survey and is presented in chained 2017 dollars.

Key information about Canada Retail Sales Growth

• Canada Retail Sales grew 1.1 % YoY in Apr 2023, compared with a 0.3 % increase in the previous month.
• Canada Retail Sales Growth YoY data is updated monthly, available from Jan 1992 to Apr 2023, with an average growth rate of 4.6 %.
• The data reached an all-time high of 32.1 % in Apr 2021 and a record low of -19.2 % in Apr 2020.
• In the latest reports, Car Sales of Canada recorded 148,815.0 units in Apr 2023, representing a growth of 4.1 %.

CEIC calculates monthly Retail Sales: Excl. Motor Vehicles Growth from monthly Retail Sales. Motor Vehicle and Parts Sales are subtracted from Total Retail Sales. Statistics Canada provides Total Retail Sales and Motor Vehicle and Parts Sales in local currency. Retail Sales: Excl. Motor Vehicles Growth prior to January 2018 is based on NAICS 2017.

In 2023, the fashion segment in the e-commerce market in Canada generated the highest percentage of sales at **** percent. According to estimates of the Statista Digital Market Outlook, the sales percentage in the fashion segment is expected to decrease in the coming years, reaching about ** percent by 2028.

Graph and download economic data for Sales: Retail Trade: Total Retail Trade: Volume for Canada (SLRTTO01CAA189S) from 1991 to 2022 about Canada, retail trade, sales, and retail.

Retail Sales Ex Autos in Canada decreased to 0.20 percent in September from 0.80 percent in August of 2025. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - Canada Retail Sales Ex Autos MoM - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

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Canada Retail Sales: CC: Clothing Stores data was reported at 1,513.219 CAD mn in Jan 2018. This records a decrease from the previous number of 3,190.235 CAD mn for Dec 2017. Canada Retail Sales: CC: Clothing Stores data is updated monthly, averaging 1,589.590 CAD mn from Jan 2004 (Median) to Jan 2018, with 169 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 3,207.501 CAD mn in Dec 2016 and a record low of 877.965 CAD mn in Feb 2004. Canada Retail Sales: CC: Clothing Stores data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Statistics Canada. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Canada – Table CA.H003: Retail Sales: NAICS 2012.

In 2023, sales of retailers in Ontario amounted to nearly *** billion Canadian dollars, an increase of approximately half a percent in comparison to a year earlier. Quebec, the second-most populated province accounted for just under *** billion Canadian dollars' worth of retail sales.

In 2024, retail e-commerce in Canada was forecast to generate over **** billion U.S. dollars in revenues. According to estimates, this figure is projected to increase to *** billion U.S. dollars by 2029. Successful e-commerce segments in Canada Canada's booming e-commerce sector owes more than half of its retail sales to two particularly lucrative segments: fashion and electronics, which captured ** and ** percent of all e-commerce retail sales in Canada in 2022, respectively. With nearly ** billion U.S. dollars in e-commerce net sales, Amazon was the leading online store in Canada in 2021, outperforming competitors like Walmart and Costco by an impressive margin. Ranking second, walmart.ca generated around **** billion U.S. dollars in e-commerce net sales that year. Fashion leads the way Fashion proved to be a successful e-commerce segment in many countries around the world, and Canada was no exception, as the most popular online stores in the fashion segment raked in millions of dollars in e-commerce net sales, led by gapcanada.ca with *** million U.S. dollars in 2021. Like many other countries in the world, Canada's fashion e-commerce sector was also disrupted by a Chinese newcomer that catapulted itself to the centerstage of the fast fashion world: Shein was the most downloaded fashion and beauty shopping app in Canada in June 2022, with its ******* monthly downloads overshadowing those of competitors. In comparison, long-established fast fashion titan Zara only amassed ****** downloads that same month.

Retail trade sales, price, and volume, for Canada, includes all members under North American Industry Classification System. Data is seasonally adjusted, available on a monthly basis in dollars x 1,000,000.

Monthly sales of grocery and convenience retailers in Canada hit a high of **** billion Canadian dollars in March 2020, an increase of over *** billion compared to the previous month. The spread of coronavirus in early March 2020 and consequent panic buying can explain this jump in sales. In 2025, grocery store sales were again exceeding ** billion Canadian dollars. Canadian in-store and online shopping As of December 2023, there were nearly ****** grocery stores located across Canada, signaling an ongoing demand for brick-and-mortar grocery stores, despite the rise of e-commerce in the Canadian retail sector. According to a recent survey, nearly ** percent of surveyed Canadians stated that they spend more on groceries bought in-store than online. Nevertheless, many Canadian shoppers had bought groceries online for the first time in 2020, mainly because of concerns about the coronavirus and the fact that it was convenient to do so. Leading grocery retailers In the 2019/20 fiscal year, Loblaw Cos. Ltd. was the leading food retailer in Canada, with a grocery sales value of around ***** billion Canadian dollars. Sobeys Inc. and Metro Inc. ranked second and third, with sales of approximately ***** and ***** billion Canadian dollars, respectively.