DataMajor Retailer Sales Trends

General Retail

Major Retailer Sales Trends

Year-over-year sales growth by channel — department stores, hypermarkets, convenience stores, SSMs, online (2024–2026) — tracking the shift in share between offline and online channels.

Source — Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy · e-National Indicators

All-Channel YoY Growth Rate

2025-01 ~ 2025-12

01
+10.8%
02
+5.2%
03
+9.1%
04
+7.3%
05
+6.7%
06
+7.5%
07
+9.1%
08
+3.6%
09
+9.1%
10
+5.3%
11
+4.2%
12
+4.4%

Channel Detail (YoY, %)

2024 Annual ~ 2026-06 · 2026-01~04 published hypermarket and department store only

PeriodTotalOfflineOnlineHypermarketsDept. StoresConv. StoresSSM
2026 H1+7.3%+6.2%+8.1%-7.3%+20.1%+3.7%-6.6%
2026-06+11.7%-10.5%+22.2%+5.1%-10.8%
2026-05+9.0%+9.3%+8.8%-5.1%+24.5%
2026-04-6.6%+21.7%
2026-03-15.2%+14.7%
2026-02+15.1%+25.6%
2026-01-18.8%+13.4%
2025 Annual+6.8%+0.4%+11.8%-4.2%+4.3%+0.1%+0.3%
2025-12+4.4%+1.7%+6.3%-9.0%+9.3%+1.4%-1.3%
2025-11+4.2%+2.6%+5.3%-8.3%+12.3%+0.3%+0.8%
2025-10+5.3%+6.3%+4.6%+9.6%+12.2%+0.3%-1.7%
2025-09+9.1%-1.4%+17.6%-11.6%+4.8%+0.6%-0.2%
2025-08+3.6%-3.3%+9.2%-15.1%+2.8%+0.7%-5.9%
2025-07+9.1%+2.5%+14.1%-2.2%+5.1%+3.5%+1.8%
2025-06+7.5%-1.4%+14.7%-3.0%-0.9%-1.2%+2.1%
2025-05+6.7%+0.5%+11.7%-0.6%+2.3%-0.6%+1.0%
2025-04+7.3%-2.1%+14.7%-3.3%-2.9%-1.1%+0.2%
2025-03+9.1%-0.6%+17.1%-1.2%-2.1%+0.8%+3.6%
2025-02+5.2%-8.6%+16.3%-20.4%-3.6%-5.2%-1.2%
2025-01+10.8%+8.7%+12.4%+16.7%+10.3%+1.1%+4.8%
2024 Annual+7.5%+1.3%+12.7%-2.4%+1.5%+3.7%+3.3%

Data Notes

  • This is the year-over-year change in nominal sales from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy's monthly sample survey of major retailers (hypermarkets, department stores, convenience stores, SSMs, online). It's calculated differently from Statistics Korea's retail sales index (constant prices, 2020=100), so the two are not directly comparable.
  • For January–April 2026, only hypermarket and department store figures were published in e-National Indicators, so the remaining channels are left blank pending verification against the original source. From May 2026 onward, total/offline/online figures were published together again. For June, however, only per-channel figures were published — the total and offline figures for June alone were not released, only the H1 cumulative — so that's shown as a separate row (2026 H1).