{"id":298414,"date":"2025-11-21T22:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T22:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/298414\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T22:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T22:55:08","slug":"canada-retail-sales-autos-parts-lead-decline-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/298414\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada retail sales: Autos, parts lead decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canada logged a drop in retail trade in September, <a href=\"https:\/\/www150.statcan.gc.ca\/n1\/daily-quotidien\/251121\/dq251121a-eng.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www150.statcan.gc.ca\/n1\/daily-quotidien\/251121\/dq251121a-eng.htm\">Statistics Canada reports<\/a>, attributing the decline primarily to a fall in autos and parts sales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The agency recorded an overall decrease of 0.7 per cent to $69.8 billion in September month-over-month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Motor vehicle and parts dealers saw a 2.9 per cent fall in sales \u2013 the first decrease in three months \u2013 and the largest losses were among new cars. Those dealers took a 3.6 per cent hit in a boomerang from a 1.8 per cent rise in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Meanwhile, gas stations and fuel vendors enjoyed a 1.9 per cent rise in sales in September, the first increase for that sector in three months. In volume terms, sales at gas stations and fuel vendors fell one per cent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Nationwide core retail sales were relatively unchanged following a 1.1 per cent gain in August.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Ontario, B.C. see slower month<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Declines in the auto sector dragged Ontario\u2019s overall sales down by 1.2 per cent \u2013 the largest regional drop out of the six provinces that posted decreases. Retail sales were down 2.3 per cent in the census metropolitan area of Toronto.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">B.C. also saw retail sales fall 0.9 per cent in September, driven by a slump in building materials and garden equipment. Nova Scotia, in contrast, recorded a retail bump of 1.5 per cent \u2013 that province actually saw an increase in auto and parts sales.<\/p>\n<p>First look at October<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Statistics Canada provided an advance estimate of retail sales in October suggesting sales were relatively unchanged from the month prior.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It\u2019s an estimate based on responses received from 54.2 per cent of companies surveyed, the agency wrote. It\u2019s likely to be revised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada logged a drop in retail trade in September, Statistics Canada reports, attributing the decline primarily to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[712,45,49,48,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-298414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298414","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=298414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}