Monthly survey on retail trade 2023Dec
Published on 22 January 2024
Sales were stable in December
Note: The trend in retail sales does not reflect that of total household consumption: the latter includes other items such as health care, education and rents.
In December, turnover in retail trade was highly stable (+0.0%) compared with November (data adjusted for seasonal and working-day variations), themselves slightly down on October (-0.5%). While sales of manufactured goods were unchanged from November (+0.0% after +0.2%), this stability masks heterogeneous trends, with a sharp rise in the bicycles and motorcycles sector (+9.5% after +1.9%), and significant increases in new cars (+4.4% after -1.0%) and press and stationery (+3.7% after +1.7%). Conversely, sales fell in the consumer electronics (-3.7% after +0.1%), car equipment (-3.8% after +4.2%) and furniture (-2.4% after -0.5%) sectors.
The volume of food sales inched up by 0.1% over the month, following the fall recorded in November (-1.4%).
With the exception of hypermarkets, which recorded a significant fall in sales in December (-4.6%), the other distribution channels showed little change over a month.
Three-month-on-three-month, sales volumes decreased for manufactured goods by 0.9%, but increased by a slight 0.2% for food products.ured goods and food sales have fallen in volume terms compared with the previous three months (-0.8% and -0.1% respectively).
The volume of food sales inched up by 0.1% over the month, following the fall recorded in November (-1.4%).
With the exception of hypermarkets, which recorded a significant fall in sales in December (-4.6%), the other distribution channels showed little change over a month.
Three-month-on-three-month, sales volumes decreased for manufactured goods by 0.9%, but increased by a slight 0.2% for food products.ured goods and food sales have fallen in volume terms compared with the previous three months (-0.8% and -0.1% respectively).
Total manufactured goods and food sales
Month-on-month change (%) - Seasonally and working-day adjusted volumes
Notes :
1) Sectors are classified according to the relative weight of the products included in the total aggregate of retail trade (weights are given on the right scale)
2) The aggregated and by sub-sector series are seasonally adjusted on an individual basis: the seasonally adjusted series do not represent the sum of the seasonally adjusted components.
1) Sectors are classified according to the relative weight of the products included in the total aggregate of retail trade (weights are given on the right scale)
2) The aggregated and by sub-sector series are seasonally adjusted on an individual basis: the seasonally adjusted series do not represent the sum of the seasonally adjusted components.
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Breakdown by industrial product and outlet category – December 2023