Retail trade - April 2024

Sales in retail trade increased in real terms by 5.3%, year‑on‑year (y-o-y) in April; in the month-on-month (m-o-m) comparison, they stagnated. Sales for sale and repair of motor vehicles decreased by 0.1%, y-o-y, and in the m-o-m comparison by 0.3%.

Sales in retail trade, except of motor vehicles¹⁾ stagnated in real terms, month‑on‑month, in April. Sales for sale of automotive fuel decreased by 0.3% and sales for sale of food by 0.2%, whereas sales for sale of non-food goods increased by 0.1%.

Sales in retail trade increased in real terms by 5.3%, year-on-year, in April; sales for sale of non‑food goods increased by 7.1%, sales for sale of automotive fuel by 3.9%, and sales for sale of food by 3.6%.

“Sales in retail trade adjusted for price effects increased, year-on-year, in April. Sales increased for sale of non-food goods, automotive fuel, as well as for food. The following contributed the most to the increase of sales in retail trade: retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet and retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating,” Jana Gotvaldová, Head of the Trade, Transport, and Services Statistics Unit of the Czech Statistical Office (CZSO), says.

Sales in retail sale of cosmetic and toilet articles in specialised stores increased by 17.1%, year‑on-year; sales in dispensing chemist, retail sale of medical and orthopaedic goods in specialised stores increased by 8.4%, in retail sale of cultural and recreation goods in specialised stores by 2.7%, in retail sale of other household equipment in specialised stores by 0.5%, and in retail sale of information and communication equipment in specialised stores by 0.4%. On the other hand, in retail sale of clothing, footwear and leather goods in specialised stores sales decreased by 0.2%. Sales in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating increased by 4.2% and in retail sale of food, beverages and tobacco in specialised stores they decreased by 1.7%. In other retail sale in non‑specialised stores, sales increased by 18.1%. In retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet²⁾ sales increased by 18.1%.

Sales for sale and repair of motor vehicles³⁾ decreased in real terms by 0.3%, m-o-m. In the year-on-year comparison, sales decreased by 0.1%. Sales for sale of motor vehicles (including spare parts) decreased by 1.2%, y-o-y, whereas sales for repair of motor vehicles increased by 4.0%.

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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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

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 March 2024 have been revised in accordance with the CZSO’s Data revision policy. Data for April 2024 are preliminary; final data for all months of 2024 will be published in March 2025.
Methodology: https://csu.gov.cz/methodology-monthly-sales-indices-in-trade