OTTAWA, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- Canada's retail sales continued growing, up 0.4 percent to 54.6 billion Canadian dollars (about 42.7 billion U.S. dollars) in October, according to Statistics Canada on Friday.
October marked the sixth consecutive monthly growth since the record decline due to the COVID-19 pandemic in April. Retail sales increased in six of 11 subsectors, representing 50.9 percent of retail trade. In volume terms, sales edged up 0.2 percent in October.
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