Total retail and food & beverage services sales fell in December 2025, according to a statement released by the Department of Statistics of Singapore today.
On a month-on-month (m-o-m) seasonally adjusted basis, total retail sales fell 5.4 per cent to $4.8 billion in December last year.
Excluding motor vehicles, total retail sales fell 6.7 per cent m-o-m to $4.1 billion.
However, on a year-on-year basis, both registered growth of 2.7 per cent and 1.7 per cent respectively.
Within the retail industries, 11 industry groups had recorded m-o-m fall in sales in December 2025.
Four of the 11 industry groups registered more than 10 per cent decline in sales.
They are wearing apparel & footwear (15.5 per cent), cosmetics, toiletries & medical goods (11.6 per cent), watches & jewellery (10.1 per cent) and furniture & household equipment (10.1 per cent).
There were two bright spots in the retail industry, namely motor vehicles and computer & telecommunications equipment. Both industries registered an increase in sales by 3.3 per cent and 3.1 per cent respectively.
17 per cent of the total retail sales were from online sales.
The proportion of online sales for computer & telecommunications equipment was the highest at 56.5 per cent, followed by furniture & household equipment at 33.4 per cent.
For the food & beverage services, sales fell 2.2 per cent on a m-o-m seasonally adjusted basis to $1 billion in December last year.
However, on a year-on-year basis, it registered a positive growth of 0.7 per cent.
M–o-m sales in December last year fell for all food & beverage services except for fast food outlets.
Sales for cafes, food courts & other eating places, restaurants and food caterers fell 3 per cent, 2.9 per cent and 1.4 per cent respectively.
Fast food outlets registered positive growth of 0.5 per cent.
25.8% of the total food & beverage sales came from online sales.
The food & beverage services do not cover individual stalls in hawker centres, food courts, coffee shops or canteens.
