Retail Trade, Australia

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Monthly and quarterly estimates of turnover and volumes for retail businesses, including store and online sales.

Reference period
June 2022
Released
28/07/2022

Key statistics

The June 2022 seasonally adjusted estimate: 

  • Rose 0.2% month-on-month.
  • Rose 12.0% compared with June 2021.
  • In volume terms, the seasonally adjusted estimate rose 1.4% in the June quarter 2022. 

An additional information release on 3 August 2022 has seen the inclusion of more detailed results for the June 2022 reference period. Additional timeseries spreadsheets have been published, including; state by industry results, state by industry sub-group results, June quarter 2022 turnover volumes, and online sales.

To understand more about changes in this issue, suspension of trend estimates, and COVID-19 in June 2022, please read the survey impacts and changes.

Turnover at current prices
Jun-2022 ($m)May-2022 to Jun-2022 (% change)Jun-2021 to Jun-2022 (% change)
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Seasonally adjusted34,239.30.212.0

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Turnover in volume terms
June Qtr 2022 ($m)March Qtr 2022 to June Qtr 2022 (% change)June Qtr 2021 to June Qtr 2022 (% change)
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Seasonally adjusted94,281.71.45.5

Total retail turnover

Analysis by industry

Food retailing

Food retailing fell 0.3% (-$35.9m) in June, in seasonally adjusted terms.

Household goods retailing

Household goods retailing fell 0.3% (-$18.0m) in June, in seasonally adjusted terms.

Clothing, footwear and personal accessory retailing

Clothing, footwear and personal accessory retailing rose 1.3% ($36.2m) in June, in seasonally adjusted terms.

Department stores

Department stores fell 3.7% (-$68.5m) in June, in seasonally adjusted terms.

Other retailing

Other retailing rose 0.5% ($25.9m) in June, in seasonally adjusted terms.

Cafes, restaurants and takeaway food services

Cafes, restaurants and takeaway food services rose 2.7% ($127.5m) in June, in seasonally adjusted terms.

Online retailing

Total online retailing sales were $3,635.1m in June 2022, in seasonally adjusted terms. Seasonally adjusted online sales were relatively unchanged at 0.0 per cent ($1.0m), following a fall of 1.0 per cent (-$37.1m). This months unchanged result highlights the post pandemic shift in popularity towards online shopping as there were no restrictions impacting on brick and mortar sales pushing consumers to online platforms. Whilst online sales are 14.4 per cent down on the Delta outbreak peak in September 2021, total online retailing sales remain elevated, up 10.0 per cent ($330.6m) through-the-year, in seasonally adjusted terms.

In June 2022, Food online sales were $1,010.4m, and Non-Food online sales were $2,624.6m, in seasonally adjusted terms. There was a rise of 1.1 per cent ($27.6m) in non-food sales, largely offset by a fall of 2.6 per cent (-$26.6m) in food sales.

In original terms, the proportion of online sales for non-Food retailing to total retailing rose to 16.3 per cent, from 16.1 per cent, while the proportion for Food retailing was unchanged at 5.6 per cent.


In original terms, the proportion of online sales to total retailing rose 0.2 per cent to 10.7 per cent in June 2022.

Additional notes regarding the online sales series can be found in the Methodology.

Data downloads

Tables 5 through to 23 have been made available on 3 August 2022. This includes June quarterly retail turnover contained in Tables 5 through to 10. Tables 1 through to 4 remain unchanged from their release on 28 July 2022. 

Time series spreadsheets

Data files

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Retail Trade, Key Statistics - Monthly retail trade estimates for Australian businesses classified by industry group, or by state and territory.

Retail Trade  - Monthly and quarterly retail trade turnover estimates for Australian businesses classified by industry group, sub group, and by state and territory.

Survey impacts and changes

The revised release schedule for Retail Trade, Australia

Changes in this issue

Suspension of trend series

Coronavirus (COVID-19) in June

Differences between Retail Trade and New Experimental Economic Indicators

Previous catalogue number

This release previously used catalogue number 8501.0.

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Post release changes

03/08/2022 - As advertised in the main release of this publication on 28 July 2022, the time series spreadsheets for tables 5 through to 23 are now available under the Data Downloads section. This includes:

  • June monthly results for State by Industry Subgroup, Completely Enumerated (large) and Sample (small) businesses, and Online Retail Turnover. 
  • June quarter 2022 results, available in tables 5 through to 10. Please note that revisions to original chain volume measures for the December quarter 2021 and March quarter 2022 due changes in the implicit price deflator are reflected in these tables.

In addition, June quarter results and an online retailing section has been added to this publication, which shows the most-up-to-date online retail sales.

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