Retail trade - July 2022

Retail trade sales decreased for the third successive month

07.09.2022
Code: 120019-22
 

Sales in retail trade decreased in real terms by 7.2%, year‑on‑year (y-o-y) in July; in the month-on-month (m-o-m) comparison, they decreased by 0.6%.

Sales in retail trade, except of motor vehicles1) decreased by 0.6% in real terms, month‑on‑month, in July. Sales for sale of automotive fuel decreased by 2.2%, for sale of non‑food goods by 0.5%, and sales for sale of food decreased by 0.3%.

Sales in retail trade decreased in real terms by 7.2%, year-on-year. Sales for sale of automotive fuel decreased by 13.5%, sales for sale of non-food goods by 7.1%, and sales for sale of food by 5.0%.

“Decrease of retail trade sales slightly deepened in July compared to the previous two months. Their decrease, which was supported by price growth, was contributed to by lower sale of automotive fuel, non-food goods, as well as food,” Jana Gotvaldová, Head of the Trade, Transport, and Services Statistics Unit of the CZSO, says.

“Consumers were more interested, compared to the previous year, only in dispensing chemist and medical goods, in other types of stores sales decreased. Online shops (retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet) recorded decrease of sale for the seventh successive month,” Marie Boušková, Director of the Trade, Transport, Services, Tourism, and Environmental Statistics Department of the CZSO, adds.

Sales in retail sale of information and communication equipment in specialised stores decreased by 15.1%, in retail sale of other household equipment in specialised stores by 12.0%, in retail sale of cultural and recreation goods in specialised stores by 9.6%, in retail sale of clothing, footwear and leather goods in specialised stores by 6.4%, and in retail sale of cosmetic and toilet articles in specialised stores by 1.0%. On the other hand, stores with dispensing chemist, medical and orthopaedic goods reported an increase of sales by 1.8%. In retail sale of food, beverages and tobacco in specialised stores, sales decreased by 7.9% and in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating by 4.9%. In retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet2) sales decreased by 5.9%.

Sales for sale and repair of motor vehicles3) decreased in real terms, m-o-m, by 1.1% and in the y-o-y comparison they decreased by 6.2%. Sales decreased for both sale of motor vehicles (including spare parts) as well as for repair of motor vehicles.

International comparison of retail sales development in Member States of the EU is available at: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/short-term-business-statistics/publications.
 

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Notes:

All data in the text of the News Release are at constant prices. The year-on-year development is published after having been adjusted for the influence of the number of working days (calendar effects). Month on‑month rates have also been seasonally adjusted. 
Enterprises are classified to the economic activity according to their principal (prevailing) activity, which is such an activity, from which the enterprise gets the highest value added.
Data for June 2022 have been revised in accordance with the CZSO’s revision policy. Data for July 2022 are preliminary; final data for all months of 2022 will be published in March 2023.
Methodology: https://www.czso.cz/csu/czso/methodology_monthly_sales_indices_in_trade_hotels_and_restaurants

1) CZ-NACE 47 – retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles
2) CZ-NACE 4791 – retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet
3) CZ-NACE 45 – wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles 

Responsible head at the CZSO: Marie Boušková, Director of the Trade, Transport, Services, Tourism, and Environmental Statistics Department, phone number: (+420) 274 052 935, (+420) 732 349 448, e-mail: marie.bouskova@czso.cz
Contact person: Jana Gotvaldová, Head of the Trade, Transport, and Services Statistics Unit, phone number: (+420) 274 052 691, (+420) 735 130 284, e-mail: jana.gotvaldova@czso.cz
Method of data acquisition: direct survey of the CZSO (“SP 1–12”)
End of data collection: 29 August 2022
End of data processing: 1 September 2022
Related outputs: time series in the Public database: (https://vdb.czso.cz/vdbvo2/faces/en/index.jsf?page=statistiky#katalog=31029).
Next News Release will be published on: 6 October 2022

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  • Annexes:
  • Table 1 Retail trade and sale and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles (year-on-year indices, constant prices, adjusted for calendar effects)
  • Chart 1 Sales in retail trade except of motor vehicles and motorcycles (base indices, constant prices)
  • Chart 2 Sales in retail trade except of motor vehicles and motorcycles (year-on-year indices, constant prices)
  • Chart 3 Sales in retail trade except of motor vehicles and motorcycles – international comparison (base indices, seasonally adjusted, constant prices)
  • Chart 4 Sales in retail trade – contribution of the selected CZ-NACE divisions to year-on-year change (adjusted for calendar effects)
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Published: 07.09.2022
The data are valid as of the release date of the publication.


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