Retail trade - September 2026

Sales in retail trade, except of motor vehicles¹⁾ increased in real terms by 0.1%, month‑on‑month, in September. Sales from sale of non-food goods increased by 0.3%, sales from sale of automotive fuel decreased by 0.6%, and sales from sale of food stagnated.

“Year-on-year, sales in retail trade increased in real terms by 4.1% in September. Sales from sale of non-food goods increased by 7.3% and sales from sale of food by 2.7%, whereas sales from sale of automotive fuel dropped by 4.5%. Sales in retail sale via Internet increased with the highest growth rate,” 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 14.5%, year‑on‑year, and non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating (growth of sales by 2.9%) contributed the most to the growth of retail trade in total. 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 dispensing chemist, medical and orthopaedic goods (growth of sales by 6.6%).

Sales for sale and repair of motor vehicles³⁾ increased by 0.2%, m-o-m, in real terms. In the year‑on‑year comparison, sales decreased by 1.6%; sales for sale of motor vehicles (including spare parts) decreased by 1.6% and sales for repair of motor vehicles by 1.3%.

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