Retail Sales Excluding Autos in Canada rose 1.2% month-over-month in August 2026, above market expectations of a 1% increase, following a 0.8% fall in July. Retail Sales Ex Autos in Canada averaged 0.37 percent from 1991 until 2026, reaching an all time high of 14.40 percent in June of 2020 and a record low of -18.80 percent in April of 2020. source: Statistics Canada
Retail Sales Ex Autos in Canada is expected to be 0.10 percent by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the Canada Retail Sales Ex Autos MoM is projected to trend around 0.70 percent in 2027 and 0.40 percent in 2028, according to our econometric models.