Eurostat: Retail sales up by 6.6% in April

The volume of seasonally adjusted retail trade in Poland grew by 6.6 percent year-on-year in April 2016, according to a data release from the EU statistics office Eurostat. In month-on-month terms, it grew by 3.7 percent. Throughout the EU, retail trade increased by 2.4 percent y/y and has declined by 0.5 percent on a monthly basis. According to the Polish Central Statistical Office, retail sales inched up by 3.2 percent y/y in April 2016.