Eurostat: Retail sales up by 5.6% in July

The volume of seasonally adjusted retail trade in Poland increased by 5.6 percent year-on-year in July 2016, according to a data release from the EU statistics office Eurostat. In month-on-month terms, it grew by 1 percent. Throughout the EU, retail trade inched up by 3.5 percent on a yearly basis and by 1 percent on a monthly basis. According to the Polish Central Statistical Office (GUS), retail sales increased by 2 percent y/y in July 2016.