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

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

Retail Trade, sales by industries based on North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), monthly.

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.

Retail Sales in Canada decreased 0.40 percent in February 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 December of 2024, retail sales amounted to an estimated 70 billion Canadian dollars. In April 2020, retail sales plummeted in Canada as the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic caused most businesses to close temporarily.

This table contains 1979 series, with data for years 2012 - 2017 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 item: Canada); North American Product Classification System (NAPCS) Canada 2012 Version 1.1 (200 items: Total commodities, retail trade commissions and miscellaneous services; Retail Services (except commissions); Food at retail; Fresh food at retail; ...); North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) (12 items: Retail trade; Motor vehicle and parts dealers; Furniture and home furnishings stores; Electronics and appliance stores; ...).

Retail Trade, e-commerce sales, Canada, by industries based on North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), monthly.

In 2022, retail trade sales in Canada amounted to approximately 815.5 billion Canadian dollars, up from 674 billion recorded a year earlier. This represents an increase of approximately 20 percent in comparison to 2021.

Retail in Canada

The Canadian retail trade industry constantly grew between 2012 and 2019. In that year retail trade sales increased by 1.6 percent from 2018. In 2020, however, sales decreased by nearly 1.5 percent amidst the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Motor vehicle and parts dealers retail sales declined nearly nine percent in 2020, while new car dealers, which accounted for about 20 percent of total retail sales, declined nearly 12 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 12 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 11 percent in 2020, but the month-over-month change increased by nearly 20 percent in December 2020 against December 2019.

In January 2021, e-commerce retail sales in Canada reached a record of 4.4 billion Canadian dollars, surpassing the boost recorded in May earlier that year when the coronavirus lockdown was beginning. In April 2024, e-commerce sales amounted to approximately 3.99 billion Canadian dollars.

Forecasts suggest, that in 2023, online retail sales in Canada amounted to nearly 110 billion Canadian dollars. Furthermore, by 2027, e-commerce retail sales in the North American country would be more than 151 billion Canadian dollars.

Canada’s online shopper specs In 2021, Canada was home to over 27 million digital buyers, and the figure is expected to surpass 30 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 53 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 47 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 five 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 12 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 60,000 different packaged food products, boasting a much larger inventory than other Canadian-native grocery e-retailers.

E-commerce sales and total sales for retail trade in Canada, available on an annual basis.

Retail sales, by industry (unadjusted)

Retail Sales in Canada increased 4.20 percent in January 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.

In 2024, retail e-commerce in Canada was forecast to generate over 65.5 billion U.S. dollars in revenues. According to estimates, this figure is projected to increase to 104 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 27 and 25 percent of all e-commerce retail sales in Canada in 2022, respectively. With nearly ten 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 3.77 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 565 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 246,000 monthly downloads overshadowing those of competitors. In comparison, long-established fast fashion titan Zara only amassed 57,000 downloads that same month.

Retail sales, by commodities classified under the North American Product Classification System (NAPCS) Canada 2022, monthly, Canada.

Retail Sales in the United States increased 0.20 percent in February of 2025 over the previous month. This dataset provides - U.S. December Retail Sales Increased More Than Forecast - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Financial estimates for retail trade, for all members under dimension financial estimates, for Canada, provinces and territories, available on an annual basis.

This statistic shows the monthly retail sales of health and personal care stores in Canada from 2015 to 2024. Retail sales of health and personal care stores in Canada amounted to about 5.6 billion Canadian dollars in August 2024, an increase compared to the previous years.

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