The triumph of supermarkets continued, lively shoppings decreased

According to GfK Hungária’s first half-year report of 2009 on domestic retail; households purchased significantly lower quantity. Similar to last year, this year also the supermarket channel has reached the best growth.

The nominal value of the daily consumer goods, purchased by Hungarian households in the first half of 2009, was 1 percent lower than the first half of 2008. Taking into account that according to the datas of  the Central Statistical Office; the indicated food inflation for the January-June period of  2009 was 5.3 percent, the retail volume of daily consumer goods were relatively greater narrowed. The largest decline was in February and March, the market had shown slow improvement, for the second quarter.