Retail trade - August 2026
Sales of retailers from sale of food and non food goods increased, whereas for automotive fuel they decreased
Publication Date: 08. 10. 2026
Product Code: 120019-26
Sales in retail trade, except of motor vehicles1) increased in real terms by 0.2%, month‑on‑month, in August. Sales from sale of non-food goods increased by 0.7% and from sale of food by 0.3%, whereas sales from sale of automotive fuel decreased by 2.1%.
“Year-on-year, sales in retail trade increased in real terms by 4.3% in August. Sales from sale of non‑food goods increased by 7.4% and sales from sale of food by 3.0%, whereas sales from sale of automotive fuel dropped by 3.2%. The highest growth was recorded as usual in retail sale via Internet,” Jana Gotvaldová, Head of the Trade, Transport, and Services Statistics Unit of the Czech Statistical Office (CZSO), says.
Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet2), in which the sales increased by 15.0%, year‑on‑year, and non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating (growth of sales by 3.1%) contributed the most to the growth of retail trade. As for stores with non-good goods, sales increased in all assortment types of stores, while the retail trade increase was supported the most by retail sale of clothing, footwear and leather goods in specialised stores (growth of sales by 10.0%).
Sales for sale and repair of motor vehicles3) decreased by 0.3%, m-o-m, in real terms. In the year‑on‑year comparison, sales decreased by 2.2%; sales for repair of motor vehicles decreased by 2.5% and sales for sale of motor vehicles (including spare parts) by 2.1%.
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 given 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, i.e. such an activity, from which the enterprise gets the highest value added.
Data for July 2026 have been revised in accordance with the CZSO’s Data revision policy. Data for August 2026 are preliminary; final data for all months of 2026 will be published in March 2027.
Detailed time series of short-term statistics on retail trade are primarily presented via the DataStat application – topic: Sectors – Trade – Short-term statistics on trade.
Methodology: https://csu.gov.cz/methodology-monthly-sales-indices-in-trade
Responsible head at the CZSO: Pavel Vančura, Director of the Trade, Transport, Services, Tourism, and Environmental Statistics Department, T: +420 274 052 096, +420 732 348 337,
Contact person: Jana Gotvaldová, Head of the Trade, Transport, and Services Statistics Unit, T: +420 274 052 691, +420 735 130 284,
Method of data acquisition: direct survey of the CZSO (“SP 1–12”)
End of data collection: 29 September 2026
End of data processing: 2 October 2026
Related outputs: time series in the DataStat database: https://data.csu.gov.cz/datastat/dash?aPolozka=OBC01
Next news release will be published on: 5 November 2026