Retail trade - February 2026
Retail sales increased, y-o-y, and stagnated, m-o-m
Publication Date: 07. 04. 2026
Product Code: 120019-26
Sales in retail trade, except of motor vehicles1) stagnated in real terms, month‑on‑month, in February. Sales from sale of food increased by 0.4%; sales from sale of non-food goods and sales from sale of automotive fuel decreased the same by 0.2%.
Year-on-year, sales in retail trade increased in real terms by 4.1% in February. Sales from sale of non-food goods increased by 6.6%, sales from sale of automotive fuel increased by 3.4%, and sales from sale of food by 1.2%.
Sales increased, year-on-year, in the following: retail sale of cosmetic and toilet articles in specialised stores by 7.9%, retail sale of cultural and recreation goods in specialised stores by 5.4%, in dispensing chemist in specialised stores and in retail sale of medical and orthopaedic goods in specialised stores by 3.9%, retail sale of clothing, footwear and leather goods in specialised stores by 3.7%, and retail sale of information and communication equipment in specialised stores by 1.5%. On the other hand, sales decreased in retail sale of other household equipment in specialised stores by 1.7%. Sales in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating increased by 1.2% and in retail sale of food, beverages and tobacco in specialised stores by 0.5%. In other retail sale in non‑specialised stores, sales increased by 5.8%. In retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet2) sales increased by 17.6%.
Sales for sale and repair of motor vehicles3) increased in real terms by 1.7%, m-o-m. In the year-on-year comparison, sales increased by 0.9%; sales for repair of motor vehicles increased by 2.5% and sales for sale of motor vehicles (including spare parts) by 0.6%.
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.
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 January 2026 have been revised in accordance with the CZSO’s Data revision policy. Data for February 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, phone number: (+420) 274 052 096, (+420) 732 348 337, e-mail: pavel.vancura@csu.gov.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@csu.gov.cz
Method of data acquisition: direct survey of the CZSO (“SP 1–12”)
End of data collection: 30 March 2026
End of data processing: 31 March 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: 11 May 2026