Eurostat: Retail sales up by 4.3% in March

The volume of seasonally adjusted retail trade in Poland grew by 4.3 percent year-on-year in March 2016, according to a data release from the EU statistics office Eurostat. In month-on-month terms, it fell by 0.9 percent. Throughout the EU, retail trade increased by 2.4 percent y/y and has declined by 0.7 percent on a monthly basis. According to the Polish Central Statistical Office, retail sales inched up by 0.8 percent y/y in March 2016.