KSH: sales of retail stores increased by 3.8 percent

Retail sales continue to grow

Compared to November of the previous year, the volume of sales net of calendar effects increased by 2.1 percent in food and food-type miscellaneous stores, by 4.9 percent in non-food retail trade and by 6.2 percent in fuel retail trade. The annual rate of growth slowed in all three areas: food sales rose 3.4 percent in October, sales of non-food products rose 6.3 percent, and fuel consumption rose 11.5 percent. (MTI)