Retail sales up by 7.5% in January

The volume of seasonally adjusted retail trade in Poland grew by 7.5 percent year-on-year in January, according to a data release from the EU statistics office Eurostat. In month-on-month terms, it grew by 3.4 percent. Throughout the EU, retail trade grew by 0.8 percent y/y and has increased by 2.8 percent on a monthly basis. According to the Polish Central Statistical Office, retail sales inched up by 3.1  percent y/y in January.