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Chart of the week
January 10, 2025
Chart of the Week: Holiday hangover - spending in January
Our Chart of the Week looks at retail sales in the month of January. Sales are 15% lower than average* and the spending lull is pretty much observed across major categories. The biggest January pullback is jewellery stores (they spike in December for Christmas), liquor (dry January?), shoes (sales peak in August before school starts) and building material (January is cold). For some it may be a New Year's resolution to curtail spending, for others it may just be a normal seasonal habit. Whatever the reason, the January dip is notable.
*We looked at the period 2017 to 2023, but excluded 2020-2022 due to noisy pandemic effects.
Economic Insights Focused on Alberta's Economy
ATB’s team of economists make sense of the latest data and trends in daily insights delivered right to your inbox.
THE TWENTY-FOUR (daily)
Retail sales, the unemployment rate, population growth, inflation, international trade—these are just a few of the economic trends the team makes sense of in ATB’s daily insights.
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