(Finance) – Sales of food and non-food goods return to growth in Julybut the comparison every year bares a generalized increase in list prices due to inflation, which is reflected in a persistent divergence between sales in value and in volume. This is what emerges from the monthly report ofIstataccording to which the retail sales they scored a in July + 1.3% in value and + 1% in volume compared to the previous month.
Sales of goods are on the rise non food (+ 1.3% in value and + 1.4% in volume) and those of goods food (+ 1.2% in value and + 0.5% in volume).
In the quarter May-Julyretail sales grow in value (+ 1.9%) and in volume (+ 0.3%) compared to the previous quarter. In particular, sales of non-food goods increased (+ 1.1% in value and + 0.5% in volume) while those of food goods grew in value (+ 2.7%) and were stationary in volume.
Over yearretail sales increase by 4.2% in value And decrease by 0.9% in volume. Sales of non-food goods are on the rise (+ 2.7% in value and + 1% in volume) while those of food goods record an increase in value (+ 6.1%) and a decrease in volume -3.6 %).
As for the non-food itemsthere were positive changes for almost all product groups except for Photo-optics and films (-1.3%) e Stationery, books, newspapers and magazines (-1.2%). The biggest increases relate to equipment for information technology, telecommunications, telephony (+ 8.2%) and household appliances, radio, TV and recorders (+ 6.9%).
Looking to the type of distributionsales grow at the GDO (+ 7.3%) and ine-commerce (+ 20.6%), while they are still in small shops and decrease in sales outside the shops (-1.5%).