Electrical and electronic goods retailing across Australia experienced a small downturn in April while most other household goods\u00a0trading rose, according to the latest retail trade figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.<\/p>\n
The ABS figures show in-store electrical and electronic goods retailing was down 0.1 percent in April.<\/p>\n
Online retail was doing rather better, with turnover contributing 5.4 percent of total retail turnover in April 2018.<\/p>\n
This was up slightly on the 5.1 percent rise in March 2018 \u2013 and quite massively on a year ago, when Stats reported online retail sales contributed just 3.4 percent to total retail for March 2017.<\/p>\n
In dollar terms, online sales are said to have reached $1.3 billion in April, up from $510 million at the same time last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"