Retail Trade - February 2004
January fall in sales did not repeat in February
Publication Date: 15. 04. 2004
Product Code: r-9101-04
Month-on-month comparison:
In February, seasonally adjusted constant price retail sales incl. the automotive segment increased by 1.2% on January. The growth was mainly affected by higher sales in the automotive segment (+2.9%) and higher sales of non-food goods (+1.0%). Sales of food, beverages or tobacco dropped by 0.4%.
Year-on-year comparison:
Seasonally adjusted constant price retail sales incl. the automotive segment were 2.2% up, of which the automotive segment sales increased by 0.4% and the remaining retail sales rose by 3.1%.
Sales not seasonally adjusted were 2.3% up. Higher sales were recorded for all main assortment groups of stores except for sale and repair of motor vehicles and specialized stores with other non-food goods.
The automotive segment recorded a 0.5% drop in sales, of which sale of automotive fuel rose by 6.1%; sales and repairs of motor vehicles failed to reach their last year’s comparable level (by 3.5% and 6.3%, respectively).
With the automotive segment excluded, retail sales increased by 3.7%, namely by 3.9% in stores classified to the food assortment group and by 3.2% in stores selling non-food goods. Sales in the individual assortment types of stores developed as follows:
- sales in non-specialized stores were 3.3% up, of which sales in stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating accounted for a rise of 4.1%. Sales in stores with no-food goods predominating were stagnating at the February 2003 level;
- specialized stores raised their sales of non-food goods by 3.8% and of food, beverages or tobacco by 2.8%;
- in non-food specialized stores, consumers’ interest fuelled by action discounts focused on purchasing clothing and footwear (an increase of 13.1%) and furniture, electrical household appliances, hardware and other household equipment (+10.0%). Pharmaceutical and medical goods, cosmetic and toilet articles sold worse (an increase of 2.6% only). Sales of books, newspapers and stationery and other retail sale in specialised stores were 0.2% below the level of February 2003;
- retail sale via stalls and markets and other non-store retail sale increased by 14.3% and retail sale via mail order houses by 3.5%, while interest in second hand goods went on falling (-4,0%);
- in non-specialized stores only enterprises with 50+ employees raised their sales: those with 100+ employees by 7.1% and those with 50 to 99 employees by 0.6% only. In specialized stores selling non-food goods, entrepreneurs without employees and enterprises with 20 to 49 employees saw their sales drop. However, sales of clothing and footwear were rising in all size groups of stores.
Note
Contact: Alena Hellerová, phone (+420) 274 052 921, e-mail: ahellerova@gw.czso.cz
Data source: CZSO direct survey in enterprises
End of data collection: 2 April 2004
End of data processing: 9 April 2004
Related publications: 9106-04 Monthly Survey in Retail Trade, Hotels and Restaurants ( https://csu.gov.cz )
The data are preliminary; revised data for February 2004 will be released in the following two monthly News Releases; final data for each month of the year 2003 will be known in June 2004.