Retail Trade

• March 2020

  May 6, 2020

  Retail sales jumped by 8.5% in March 2020, driven by panic buying amid escalation of the pandemic in Australia. The bounce was stronger than expected by market participants and the ABS preliminary estimate. It was also the largest on record.

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• February 2020

  April 3, 2020

  Retail sales rose stronger than expected in February due to COVID-related buying.

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• January 2020

  March 6, 2020

  Retail sales slipped for the second month in a row in January, falling 0.3% in seasonally adjusted terms.

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• December 2019

  February 6, 2020

  In December 2019, seasonally-adjusted retail sales decelerated to 2.7% through the year and retreated by 0.5% in monthly terms.

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• November 2019

  January 10, 2020

  Retail sales jumped 0.9% in seasonally adjusted terms in November, the biggest rise in two years.

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• October 2019

  December 5, 2019

  Retail sales were unchanged in seasonally adjusted terms in October following a 0.2% increase in September.

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