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The retail trade in April, 1.5 percent more than in the same month last year. Also in non-food stores was talk of recovery
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That turned out Monday to figures from the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS).
The sales volume grew for the fifth consecutive month, by 2.6 percent, while prices fell less sharply than in previous months. In both shops selling food, beverages and tobacco and non-food stores increased turnover and sales.
The higher growth was partly due to the favorable composition of shopping days in April. This month was a Tuesday so less, but a Thursday more than last year. ,, On a Thursday in the retail turnover grew normally on a Tuesday, “the statistics office. If this positive shopping day effect is removed from the figures, the revenues come in April, about as high as a year earlier. Sales then grow still more than 1 percent.
The shops in non-food products recorded a sales growth of nearly 2 percent, with large differences in the underlying industries. Sales rose by more than 3 percent on falling prices.
Stores in home furnishings and drugstores turned more sales at consumer electronics stores, housewares and do it yourself articles the yields as a month earlier return.
Only clothing stores in April image was different than in the previous month, turnover increased as 2 percent, while in March, sales still fell by more than 5 percent. ,, The sales growth of clothing may vary from month to month, partly because consumers influenced their buying behavior by the weather, “the CBS said.
The online retail turnover grew in April remained strong, with slightly more than 16 percent
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