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Structure of Retail in Canada
A discussion of the structure and characteristics of the Canadian Retail Sector. (June 2006)

Sector Council Program — Skills Partnerships Workplace
Human Resources and Skills Development Canada

Statistics Canada

Statistics Canada

Retail Trade — November 2009
Statistics Canada — The Daily (January 22, 2010)
Retail sales declined 0.3 percent in November after rising for three consecutive months. In volume terms sales declined 1.0 percent. A contributing factor was lower winter clothing sales as a result of unseasonably warm weather throughout most of Canada.

Monthly Survey of Large Retailers — November 2009 (January 18, 2010)

Study: Retailers Competing for Market Share: 2008 Retail Sales (July 31, 2009)
This report is the second of two annual reviews on the retail trade sector in 2008.

Annual Retail Trade, 2007
Statistics Canada — The Daily (March 30, 2009)
Annual publication which provides information on some characteristics such as operating revenues, operating expenses, operating profits and gross margins for retail trade.

Retail Trade: How the Provinces Fared in 2007
Analytical Paper

Retail Trade: How the Provinces Fared in Retail Trade, 2007 (May 2008)
Canadian retailers on the whole had a banner year in 2007, as the annual rate of growth in their sales was the second highest in five years. For the first time, employment in the retail trade industry reached parity with employment in manufacturing.

Restaurants, Caterers and Taverns — November 2007 (preliminary)
Statistics Canada – The Daily (November 30, 2007)
Total estimated sales of the restaurants, caterers and taverns industry reached $3.5 billion in September, a 4.3 percent increase over September 2006. (Data are neither seasonally adjusted, nor adjusted for inflation).

Study: A review of retail trade in the provinces — 2006 (June 27, 2007)
Canada's retailers had their busiest year in nearly a decade in 2006, and it was consumers in the three westernmost provinces who increased their spending the most, according to a new study.

Study: Retail Gift Cards, 2003—2005
This study examines the evolution of the offering of gift cards among large Canadian retailers from 2003 to 2005. It also gives a first glance at the results of a special survey about gift cards in the broader retail community. (December 4, 2006)

Study: Competing for the Retail Drug Market, 2005
This study analyzes drug sales by type of retailer between 1998 and 2005. (September 18, 2006)

Quarterly Retail Commodity Survey — First Quarter 2006
Statistics Canada — The Daily (July 14, 2006)
Since the beginning of 2005 and continuing into the first quarter of 2006, rising fuel prices at the pump have caused consumers to spend proportionately more of their retail dollar on automotive fuels, oils and additives.

Study: Canadian Retailers Competing for the Consumer's Food Dollar
This study examines market shares for retail sales and gross margins by different store types from 1997 to 2004. (April 11, 2006)

Study: Retail trade since the turn of the millenium, 1996 to 2004
Statistics Canada — The Daily (October 17, 2005)
Canada's retail trade industry has grown at a relatively robust pace since the turn of the millennium, even though the economy encountered a series of dampening events, according to a new study that provides an in-depth analysis of retail sales nationally and provincially between 1996 and 2004.