Watching the way residents of this province buy new vehicles is a little like watching a roller-coaster. It goes up and then it goes down. The pace of …
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A Billion Dollar Gig
This is a day when we stimulate the economy by giving kids candy. Well, then there’s the costume thing too and that’s not restricted to children. There’s no …
A Good Omen – Retail Sales Rise
The easiest way to track consumer spending is through the monthly report on retail sales volumes. It compiles total revenues at stores and the like to see …
A Bump on the Retail Road
Saskatchewan consumers took a little break in May. After several months of steady or strengthening retail spending, we saw a reversal in May as total revenues …
Discretionary Spending Remains Solid
It turns out we still like heading out for a beer. One of the key metric in assessing consumer confidence or to the test the mood of the average citizen is …
Retail spending lagging
Next to Newfoundland, Saskatchewan posted the largest year-over-year pullback in consumer or retail spending in the country in October. Sales at retail …