Popular back-to-school shopping product categories in Canada 2020

According to a back-to-school survey carried out in July 2020, food for packed lunches was the category which most Canadian mothers with children entering K-12 in 2020 were likely to purchase – some 92 percent of respondents were planning to food. Footwear and clothes were also among the most popular back-to-school shopping categories. The back-to-school market in Canada In the academic year 2017/18, there were over 4.85 million students enrolled in public elementary and secondary schools in Canada, creating a huge market for back-to-school supplies. Over two million of these students were enrolled in schools in Ontario. Footwear in Canada Total footwear sales in Canada were forecast to reach around 8.1 billion U.S. dollars by 2020, a projected increase of over three billion dollars over a ten-year period. As of December 2018, there were almost 3,000 shoe stores located across Canada to cater for parents’ back-to-school needs.

根据2020年7月进行的一项返校调查，对于即将于2020年进入K-12学段的加拿大母亲而言，包装午餐所需的食品成为最有可能购买的商品类别——约92%的受访者计划购买此类食品。鞋类和服装亦位列返校购物最受欢迎的类别之列。在加拿大，返校市场呈现出蓬勃发展之势。在2017/18学年度，加拿大公立小学和中学的注册学生人数超过485万，为返校用品市场创造了巨大的商机。其中，在安大略省就读的学生人数超过两百万。在加拿大，鞋类市场方面，预计到2020年，总鞋类销售额将达到约81亿美元，较十年前预测增长超过30亿美元。截至2018年12月，加拿大全国共有近3000家鞋店，以满足家长们的返校需求。