Eurostat: Retail sales up by 6.4% in May

The volume of seasonally adjusted retail trade in Poland grew by 6.4 percent year-on-year in May 2016, according to a data release from the EU statistics office Eurostat. In month-on-month terms, it fell by 0.4 percent. Throughout the EU, retail trade increased by 2.8 percent on a yearly basis and 0.4 percent on a monthly basis. According to the Polish Central Statistical Office (GUS), retail sales inched up by 2.2 percent y/y in May 2016.