{"id":241827,"date":"2025-10-26T18:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T18:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/241827\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T18:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T18:07:09","slug":"nl-posts-strongest-retail-sales-growth-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/241827\/","title":{"rendered":"NL Posts Strongest Retail Sales Growth in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Grocey-retail-job-check-out-cashier-stock.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"NL Posts Strongest Retail Sales Growth in Canada\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Stock image.)<\/p>\n<p>Retail sales in Canada increased 1.0 per cent to $70.4 billion in August from the month before, with Newfoundland and Labrador leading the way.<\/p>\n<p>Statistics Canada says sales were up in six of nine subsectors and were led by increases at motor vehicle and parts dealers.<\/p>\n<p>The increase in Newfoundland and Labrador from July to August was 5.1 per cent, the largest of any jurisdiction in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Canada Summer Games were held in the metro region in August, but it\u2019s unclear whether the economic activity associated with the event contributed to the increase in retail sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (Stock image.) Retail sales in Canada increased 1.0 per cent to $70.4 billion in August from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":["post-241827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}