Retail trade up by 0.3% in August – Eurostat

The value of retail trade in Poland inched up by 0.3 percent year-on-year in August, according to data released by the EU’s statistics office Eurostat on Tuesday. In month-on-month terms Poland’s retail trade declined by 1.3 percent. Throughout the EU retail trade inched down by 0.8 percent y/y and by 1.4 percent m/m in August. In the euro area it fell by 1.9 percent y/y and by 1.8 percent m/m, the Eurostat also said.