{"id":90338,"date":"2025-08-23T04:07:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T04:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/90338\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T04:07:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T04:07:14","slug":"statistics-canada-reports-retail-sales-up-1-5-per-cent-in-june-at-70-2-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/90338\/","title":{"rendered":"Statistics Canada reports retail sales up 1.5 per cent in June at $70.2 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">OTTAWA \u2014 Statistics Canada says retail sales rose 1.5 per cent to $70.2 billion in June, helped by increased spending at food and beverage retailers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">However, the agency says its preliminary estimate for July pointed to a 0.8 per cent drop in retail sales for that month, though it cautioned the figure would be revised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Retail sales in June were up in all nine subsectors tracked by Statistics Canada with sales at food and beverage retailers up 2.3 per cent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Sales at clothing, clothing accessories, shoes, jewelry, luggage and leather goods retailers gained 5.1 per cent in June, while general merchandise retailers rose 1.6 per cent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Core retail sales, which exclude gasoline stations and fuel vendors and motor vehicle and parts dealers, gained 1.9 per cent in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">In volume terms, retail sales rose 1.5 per cent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 22, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 Statistics Canada says retail sales rose 1.5 per cent to $70.2 billion in June, helped by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,16224,46,17506,50],"class_list":["post-90338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cent","tag-economy","tag-retail-sales","tag-statistics-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90338","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=90338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}