Retail trade in Croatia in October this year compared to September decreased nominally and real by 1.4 percent. On an annual basis, however, compared to October last year, this October recorded a nominal increase in retail trade of 3.2 percent, while it decreased real by 2.5 percent, reported DZS.
Retail trade, šwhich is generated by all legal entities engaged in this activity regardless of their primary activity, increased nominally by 7.5 percent and real by 0.2 percent in the first ten months of this year compared to the same period last year. Observed by trade sectors, a decline in sales is recorded on a monthly basis in sectors with a high share in total retail – non-specialized grocery stores and retail of motor fuels and lubricants. Thus, in October compared to September, retail of motor fuels and lubricants recorded a nominal decline in sales of 4.6 percent, in non-specialized grocery stores a decline of 3.3 percent, and in other non-specialized stores a decline of 1.4 percent.
On an annual basis, in October this year compared to October last year, in the retail of motor fuels and lubricants, which has a share of up to 18.8 percent in the total retail structure, a sales increase of 10 percent is recorded. Sales in non-specialized grocery stores, which account for the largest share in retail, of 25.7 percent, in October this year compared to the same month last year was nominally higher by 7.8 percent, while sales in other non-specialized stores simultaneously recorded an increase of 3.3 percent. In October, higher rates of nominal sales growth on an annual basis are recorded, for example, in medical and orthopedic products (37.7 percent), fish, shellfish, crustaceans trade (13.5 percent), trade of other grocery products in specialized stores (7.8 percent), pharmacies (7.7 percent), and alcoholic and other beverages (6.6 percent). A significant decline in retail trade on an annual basis is recorded, for example, in the sale of used goods, by 88.4 percent, in the sale of fruits and vegetables, by 11.7 percent, etc. (H)
