Eurostat: Retail sales up by 6.2% in February

The volume of seasonally adjusted retail trade in Poland grew by 6.2 percent year-on-year in February 2016, according to a data release from the EU statistics office Eurostat. In month-on-month terms, it fell by 2.9 percent. Throughout the EU, retail trade increased by 3 percent y/y and has declined by 0.1 percent on a monthly basis. According to the Polish Central Statistical Office, retail sales inched up by 3.9  percent y/y in February 2016.