Canadian retail sales fell 0.3 per cent to $67 billion in January. Excluding volatile items, sales were up 0.4 per cent month-over-month. In volume terms, retail sales rose 0.2 per cent in January. Retail e-commerce trade rose by 3.5 per cent to $3.8 billion in January, amounting to 5.7 per cent of total retail sales. 

Sales in BC fell 2.2 per cent in January. BC retail sales were down 2 per cent from the same time last year. In the CMA of Vancouver, retail sales were down 1.6 per cent from the prior month and were unchanged from January of 2022.

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