Grocery retail back on track

Retail volume sales improved by 6.5 percent from the base period level in February 2016; adjusted for calendar effects, the sales growth was 6.4 percent. Food and food-type retail sales increased by 4.9 percent and non-food sales surged 7.5 percent; motor fuel volume sales rose 9.1 percent. In January-February 2016 the volume of retail sales exceeded the level of the same period in 2015 by 4.3 percent. /