{"id":752693,"date":"2013-04-26T10:20:40","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T17:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/News\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/26\/canada-sees-strong-monthly-growth-in-retail-sales\/"},"modified":"2013-05-06T19:03:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T02:03:21","slug":"canada-sees-strong-monthly-growth-in-retail-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/News\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/26\/canada-sees-strong-monthly-growth-in-retail-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada sees strong monthly growth in retail sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#039;s been an ongoing struggle over the past few years, but it seems as though Canada is on a solid track to fully recover&nbsp;from the&nbsp;negative effects&nbsp;of&nbsp;the global&nbsp;economic recession. One indicator of strong improvement within Canada has been its recent retail sales volumes.<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest data from Statistics Canada, retail sales throughout the country <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statcan.gc.ca\/daily-quotidien\/130423\/dq130423a-eng.htm?HPA\" target=\"_blank\">increased by 0.8 percent<\/a> in February from the previous month. This represents an approximate&nbsp;total of $39.5 billion in transactions. The research revealed that sales jumped in eight of the nation&#039;s 10 provinces, including Alberta, Manitoba, British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec. These findings highlight the fact that Canadian consumers are becoming more confident in the economy as well as their own financial conditions.<\/p>\n<p>In January, retail sales also increased, following several months of declines at the end of 2012.&nbsp;CBC News reports that sales volumes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/business\/story\/2013\/03\/21\/retail-sales-january.html\" target=\"_blank\">rose 1 percent<\/a> from December, beating analysts expectations of 0.9 percent. If these figures continue to improve in Canada, retailers can adjust to boosts in consumers spending by incorporating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/Solutions\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"dnautolink\">retail POS software<\/a> into their operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been an ongoing struggle over the past few years, but it seems as though Canada is on a solid track to fully recover from the negative effects of the global economic recession. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/News\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/26\/canada-sees-strong-monthly-growth-in-retail-sales\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":752694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-specialty-retail-industry-trends"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/News\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/News\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/News\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/News\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/News\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/News\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/News\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/News\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/News\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/News\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}