Retail sales kept growing in September

After the 4.6-percent growth in August, retail volume sales improved by 5.1 percent from the base period level in September 2015. Food and food-type retail sales increased by 3 percent and non-food sales soared by 6.9 percent; motor fuel volume sales rose 6.1 percent. In January-September 2015 the volume of retail sales exceeded the level of the same period in 2014 by 5.9 percent.