Eurostat: retail sales up by over 5% in July y/y

The volume of seasonally adjusted retail trade in Poland grew by 5.6  percent year-on-year in July, according to a data release from the EU’s statistics office Eurostat. In month-on-month terms the decline was 1.1 percent. Throughout the EU retail trade increased by 3.3 percent y/y and grew by 0.3 percent m/m. According to the Polish Central Statistical Office, retail sales rose by 1.2  percent y/y in July.