In June, the electronic payment transaction volume in Macau's retail industry fell by 1.5% year-on-year.

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08/08/2025
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In June 2025, the electronic payment transactions in Macau's retail industry totaled 3.73 billion Macau Patacas, a year-on-year decrease of 1.5%.
According to data from the Statistics and Census Bureau of Macao, in June 2025, the electronic payment transaction volume (hereinafter referred to as transaction volume) of the retail industry in Macao was 3.73 billion Macao Patacas, a year-on-year decrease of 1.5%. Among the major retail sectors, department stores and leather goods performed better, with the year-on-year decline in department store transaction volume in June (-2.2%) continuing to narrow, while the transaction volume of leather goods increased by 6.6%. Also affected by the fading holiday effect, the retail industry's transaction volume in Macao in June decreased by 11.8% compared to the revised amount in May (42.3 billion Macao Patacas), with the transaction volumes of watches and jewelry and pharmacies both decreasing by 21.1% and 19.5% respectively; while the transaction volume of leather goods increased by 1.0% compared to the previous month. In the first half of 2025, the transaction volume of the catering industry increased by 3.1% year-on-year to 6.75 billion Macao Patacas, while the transaction volume of the retail industry decreased by 10.2% year-on-year to 25.05 billion Macao Patacas. In June 2025, the transaction volume of the catering industry in Macao increased by 2.2% year-on-year to 1.06 billion Macao Patacas, with fast-food restaurants (+12.9%) seeing a significant increase in transaction volume, and Chinese restaurants and tea houses as well as porridge and noodle shops increasing by 2.6% and 1.8% respectively year-on-year. With the holiday effect of Labor Day fading, the transaction volume of the catering industry in Macao decreased by 8.5% month-on-month in June, with tea houses and porridge and noodle shops as well as Chinese restaurants seeing transaction volumes decrease by 10.9% and 9.4% respectively.