Australian retailers have seen a drop in online spending by $262 million in April 2023 to $3.3 billion, data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics revealed.
In seasonally adjusted terms, total online retailing sales were down by $49 million to $3.7 billion in April.
ABS notes that its seasonally adjusted estimates are produced by removing seasonal patterns from the original estimates.
Seasonally adjusted online sales fell by 1.3 per cent (-$49.0m) following a fall of 3.0 per cent (-$118.3m) in March 2023.
Original online sales in April fell by 7.2 per cent (-$262.2m).
Non-food online sales were down by $31.2 million in seasonally adjusted terms to $2.6 billion, while food sales in comparison dropped by $17.9 million to just over $1 billion.
In original terms, the proportion of online sales to total retailing fell from 10.5 per cent in March 2023 to 10.0 per cent in April 2023. According to the ABS, this proportion is the lowest since April 2022, when online sales also made up 10.0 per cent of total retailing sales.
Also in original terms, the proportion of online non-food retailing sales to total non-food retailing fell from 16.6 per cent to 16.1 per cent. The proportion of online food retailing sales to total food retailing fell from 5.7 per cent to 5.3 per cent.
