Retail sales in Singapore rose by 2.8% year-on-year in September 2025, easing from an eighteen-month high of 5.2% advance in the previous month. This marked the softest increase in retail activity since June, mainly driven by lower sales in petrol service stations (-8% vs -5% in August), wearing apparel and footwear (-3.6% vs -0.6%), and others (-11.4% vs 1%). Additionally, trade growth slowed for furniture and household equipment (0.3% vs 7.2%), computer and telecommunications equipment (2.8% vs 7.7%), and supermarkets & hypermarkets (5.1% vs 8.8%). Conversely, sales increased further for watches and jewelry (16.6% vs 11.9%), while it declined less for food and alcohol (-3% vs -4.9%). On a seasonally adjusted monthly basis, retail sales fell by 1.4% in September, reversing a 0.7% gain in the preceding period.